User:Stoub/COinS
Since templates are transcluded, being able to fix the templates that render citations would correct everywhere that template is used.
However:
- Use of the citation templates is not required. You are entitled to either format citations by hand (no particular style is encouaged) rather than using the templates.
- Many editors find citation templates a distraction.
- Editors may be sensitive to templatizing citations. You're supposed to get consensus on the Talk (a.k.a. "discussion") page before making changes like this.
There are some semi-bots that aid in fixing citations:
- User:CitationTool is a semi-bot for finding citation errors (sequencing and duplication errors) and fixing them.
- User:SmackBot fixes ISBNs
- User:Cyde/Ref converter converts articles that use the older {{ref}} and {{note}} system into the more recent Cite system (<ref> and </references>)
Note that most templates are protected; I'll need to ask an admin to implement changes to the templates.
To view the actual template, view the source of the template page. To understand the syntax of the if statements, see m:ParserFunctions.
- {{Citation}} is the generic form. The COinS portion is in Template:Citation/core.
- {{cite book}}
- {{cite journal}}
- {{cite conference}} conference report or paper
- {{cite encyclopedia}}
- {{cite news}} news article
- {{cite patent}} and {{Ref patent}}
The ones above have COinS in the templates. The ones below do not.
- {{cite web}} website
- {{cite newsgroup}} newsgroup posting
- {{cite paper}} paper thesis dissertation
- {{cite press release}}
- {{cite video}}
- {{cite episode}} television or radio episode
- {{cite court}} court case
- {{cite map}}
- {{cite mailing list}}
Also, the Special:Booksources page (where hyperlinked ISBNs go), has COinS.
History
[edit]- December 3, 2006 - January 9, 2007
- Omegatron (talk) expressed interest in adding COinS to {{cite journal}} template (see discussion) and {{cite book}} template (see discussion).
- April 18-21, 2007
- Gwern (talk) added COinS to {{Citation}} template though Omegatron noted this only works for books (see discussion).
- May 28 - June 8, 2007
- COGDEN (talk) removed COinS from{{Citation}} template but Omegatron talked him through their return (see discussion).
- November 8, 2007
- Karnesky (talk) suggestion about improving rft.genre in {{cite book}} template (see discussion).
- April - August 2007
- Pigsonthewing (talk; banned until August 19, 2008) seems to have added COinS to other templates (e.g., Infobox Book) but these seem to have been reverted.
{{Citation}}
[edit]| Fields | Current COinS Mapping | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| n/a | rft_val_fmt is hard-coded to info:/ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book | Wrong. Additionally, LibX converts this to genre=book which duplicates this genre field |
| ? | if Journal is not empty: rft.genre=article, elseif IncludedWorkTitle is not empty: rft=genre=bookitem; else rft.genre=book | Needs work |
| IncludedWorkTitle | rft.atitle | ? |
| Periodical | rft.title if Journal is not empty | ? (rft.title is OpenURL Version 0.1 / rft.jtitle is OpenURL Version 1.0) |
| Title | rft.title always; rft.atitle if Journal is not empty | Needs work. The article example maps to title when it should map to atitle. |
| contribution, contribution-url, chapter, chapter-url | - | |
| Surname1 | rft.aulast | Ok |
| Given1 | rft.aufirst | Ok |
| last, first, author-link, last1, first1, author1-link, last2, first2, author2-link, last3, first3, author3-link, last4, first4, author4-link, editor-last, editor-first, editor-link, editor1-last, editor1-first, editor1-link, editor2-last, editor2-first, editor2-link, editor3-last, editor3-first, editor3-link, editor4-last, editor4-first, editor4-link | - | |
| Date | rft.date | Ok |
| publication-date, year | - | |
| series | - | |
| Volume | rft.volume | Ok |
| Issue | rft.issue | Ok |
| At | rft.pages | Ok |
| Edition | rft.edition | Ok |
| Place, Publication Place | rft.place | Two values? |
| Publisher | rft.pub | Ok |
| DOI | rft_id=info:doi/ | Ok |
| ISBN | rft.isbn | Ok |
| ISSN | rft.issn | Ok |
| id, oclc | - | |
| IncludedWorkURL | rft_id= | Is this kosher? Need to check. |
| access-date | - |
{{{cite book}}}
[edit]| Field | Current COinS mapping | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| - | rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book | |
| - | rft.genre=book | |
| title | rft.btitle | Ok |
| chapter | rft.atitle | Ok |
| last | rft.aulast | Ok |
| first | rft.aufirst | Ok |
| author | rft.au | Ok (should be rft.author / think of: ...contains("rft.au") |
| coauthors (Körperschaft) | rft.aucorp | Organization or corporation that is the author or creator of the book, i.e. "MellonFoundation" |
| date, year | rft.date | Ok |
| edition | rft.edition | Ok |
| publisher | rft.pub | Ok |
| location | rft.place | Ok |
| page | rft.pages | Ok |
| series | rft.series | Ok |
| isbn | rft.isbn | Ok |
| oclc | rft_id=info:oclcnum/ | Ok |
| doi | rft_id=doi/ | Ok |
| url | rft_id | Ok |
| location | - |
{{{cite journal}}}
[edit]| Field | Current COinS mapping | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| - | rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal | |
| - | rft.genre=article | |
| title | rft.atitle | Ok |
| journal | rft.jtitle | Ok |
| last | rft.aulast | Ok |
| first | rft.aufirst | Ok |
| author | rft.au | Ok |
| coauthors | - | |
| date, year | rft.date | Ok |
| volume | rft.volume | Ok |
| issue | rft.issue | Ok |
| page | rft.pages | Ok |
| issn | rft.isbn | Ok |
| pmid | rft_id=info:pmid/ | Ok |
| doi | rft_id=doi/ | Ok |
| url | rft_id | Ok |