Template:Cite web

This template is a simpler replacement for template:web reference. It provides lower case parameters only.

Usage

{{cite web
 | last = 
 | first = 
 | authorlink = 
 | coauthors = 
 | year = 
 | url = 
 | title = 
 | format = 
 | work = 
 | publisher = 
 | accessdate = 
 | accessyear = 
}}

Required parameters

• url: URL of online item.
• title: Title of online item.
• accessdate: Date (Month Day) when item was accessed. Should be ISO 8601 YYYY-MM-DD format.
  • accessyear: Year when item was accessed. (Optional if ISO 8601 date used)

Optional parameters

• author: Author
  • last works with first to produce last, first
  • authorlink works either with author or with last & first to link to the appropriate article
  • coauthors: allows additional authors
• year: Date published.
• format: Format, i.e. PDF. HTML implied if not specified.
• work: If this item is part of a larger work, name of that work.
• publisher: Publisher, if any.

This template contains one or more optional parameters: see the talk page for details. This template employs some extremely complicated and esoteric features of template syntax. Please do not attempt to alter it unless you are certain that you understand the setup and are prepared to repair any consequent collateral damage if the results are unexpected. Any experiments should be conducted in the template sandbox or your user space.