Template:Cite NBD1849
O'Byrne, William R. (1849). A Naval Biographical Dictionary. London: John Murray. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
This template is wrapper around {{cite encyclopedia}} it can use all the parameters that {{cite encyclopedia}} can use, but as documented below some of them are filled in automatically and there are also some additional parameters. As can be seen below in the example section using this template saves the editor time (as many of the parameters are filled in automatically) and as those parameters are not displayed in edit mode it reduces clutter editors see when editing which is particularly useful if the full citation appears in an inline citation within a ref...tag pair.
Usage
Parameters that are filled in by this template:
first= William R.last= O'Byrneeditor-link= William Richard O'Byrnedate= 1849encyclopedia= A Naval Biographical Dictionarylocation= Londonpublisher= John Murray
There are some none standard parameters:
wstitle= NBD article name as it appears on Wikisource — the template adds in the rest of the link automaticallydisplay= name — overrides the display to the screen ofwstitleortitle. This is sometimes desirable for example for hiding disambiguation extensions which do not appear in the original print version of he encyclopediashort= x (or any other value) — it hides the display offirst, last, link, location, publisherthis is typically used when this template appears in the External links section to remove clutter
Other considerations:
- If
wstitleis not set then the standard parametertitlemust be set if neither are then a red warning printed - Unless
noiconis set an icon is displayed before first character displayed by the template. The icon displayed varies depending on whetherwstitleis set.
Examples
Usually only two variable are required to access the article on Wikisource:
{{Cite NBD1849 |wstitle=Adam, Charles |page=3}}
- O'Byrne, William R. (1849). . A Naval Biographical Dictionary. London: John Murray. p. 3.
To change the title displayed:
{{Cite NBD1849 |wstitle=Adam, Charles |page=3 |display=ADAM, Charles}}
- O'Byrne, William R. (1849). . A Naval Biographical Dictionary. London: John Murray. p. 3.
To shorten the display:
{{Cite NBD1849 |wstitle=Adam, Charles |page=3 |short=x}}
- . A Naval Biographical Dictionary. 1849. p. 3.
To remove the icon from the display:
{{Cite NBD1849 |wstitle=Adam, Charles |page=3 |short=x |noicon=x}}
- "Adam, Charles". A Naval Biographical Dictionary. 1849. p. 3.
It may be that an article has yet to be ported to Wikisouce article space and a url is required (the url parameter is ignored if wstitle is set):
{{Cite NBD1849 |title=Adam, Charles |page=3 |url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924027921372/page/n16/mode/1up}}
O'Byrne, William R. (1849). "Adam, Charles". A Naval Biographical Dictionary. London: John Murray. p. 3.
Maintenance categories
See also
{{NBD1849}}— takes the same parameters as this template but prepends an attribution string as required by plagiarism guideline if text is copied verbatim from the article in A Naval Biographical Dictionary{{NBD1849 poster}}— display A Naval Biographical Dictionarya Wikisource article in a top box on the right (placed in the External links section)