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- See Wikinews:Style guide for more information on citing your sources.
Usage[edit]
*{{source|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4577142.stm
|title=Las Vegas hosts digital nirvana
|author=Alf Hermida
|pub=BBC News Online (The parameter "|publisher=" is an alternate usage)
|date=January 3, 2006}}
- If you cannot find the author of a source, leave that field blank. Do not use 'staff reporter' or similar
- Please put in a (second level) section labeled Sources (
==Sources==) - Format date as shown above
- Always try to cite multiple independent sources
- Articles that don't provide a URL are listed at Category:Articles with broken source templates
- Category:Citation templates lists templates for offline news sources
- For unsupported URL schemas (like mms:) use brokenURL=true
- For publications (the 'pub=' or 'publisher=' parameter) please specify the exact same name under which the publication appears on Wikipedia
- On those rare occasions when publication name should differ from publication link target, use additional parameter 'pubtarget='.
Example
Some story[edit]
June 14, 2013
Story, blah foo bar, Baz Fred.
Sources
- Alf Hermida. "Las Vegas hosts digital nirvana" — BBC News Online, January 3, 2006
- Note
- you should always cite more than one source. Do not list multiple publications with the same wire report; instead try to list the originating location.
See also[edit]
- {{source/ucauthor}}
