[edit] Template documentation

See Wikinews:Style guide for more information on citing your sources.

Usage

    *{{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 
    |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 (2nd 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=' parameter) please specify the exact same name as the publication appears under on Wikipedia

Example

Note

you should always cite more then one source. Do not list multiple publications with the same wire report; instead try to list the originating location.

See also