Template:Citation/doc

{{Citation}} (alternatively, {{cite}}) is a general purpose citation template. It should be used whenever giving a source for a statement on this wiki, and can handle websites, books, magazines/newspapers, documents from the Modern Record Centre, signs and plaques, and more.

Usage

It is intended to be used within <ref> tags, like so:

This is a statement that needs to be sourced.<ref>{{citation|title=A Source|...}}</ref>

Then, at the bottom of the page, do

== References ==
{{reflist}}

Overall, this produces the following:

This is a statement that needs to be sourced.

References

This template has many parameters, but most will rarely be necessary. For a full list, check the TemplateData.

Websites

For websites, the following will probably be enough:

{{citation| title = | author = | website-name = | date = | url = | access-date = }}

If the website has an archive (for example on the Wayback Machine), which is recommended, the following should be used instead:

{{citation| title = | author = | website-name = | date = | url = | access-date = | archive-url = | archive-date = }}

Examples

For example:

Wikitext

Display

{{citation| title = Campus Residences at the University of Warwick | author = [[Warwick Accomodation]] | website-name = warwick.ac.uk | date = 2025-02-25 | url = https://warwick.ac.uk/services/accommodation/students/residences | access-date = 2025-07-14 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20250714164141/https://warwick.ac.uk/services/accommodation/students/residences | archive-date = 2025-07-14 }}

"Campus Residences at the University of Warwick" by Warwick Accomodation (2025-02-25) via warwick.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 2025-07-14. Accessed on 2025-07-14.