Template:CiteNews

Template documentation

This documentation is transcluded from Template:CiteNews/doc.

Usage

{{CiteNews |author= |url= |title= |newsdate= |notes= |date=~~~~~ |name= }}

Author

The author of the news update. This usually appears at the bottom of the news post, before the "In Other News..." section.

URL

The full URL to the news post, including the http://. An archive of past news posts can be found here.

Title

The title of the news post, found between the two arrow buttons at the top.

Newsdate

The date the news update was posted. Found next to the title between the two arrow buttons.

Notes

Optional. This parameter allows you to add text beginning one space after the end of the citation. Having no formatting (meaning you will have to format it yourself), this area can be used for anything you require.

Date

Leave this field as ~~~~~, it will auotmatically be converted to the proper date and time format. When verifying the reference, delete whatever is provided and change it to ~~~~~.

Name

Optional. If you want to use this reference more than once, you must name it the first time you use it, then whenever you want to use it again, add {{NamedRef|name}} wherever you want it to re-appear.