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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. List syndicate in the author field.
- 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='. You can also use this to specify a target project other than English Wikipedia.
- For an unavailable source (brokenURL=true) of an archived article, you may provide information about archival copies of the source using 'archiveurl=' and 'archivedescription='.
Example
Some story
editନଭେମ୍ବର ୨୬, ୨୦୨୪
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
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