Template:Cite newsgroup
 | This template uses Lua: |
| {{Cite arXiv}} | arXiv preprints |
|---|---|
| {{Cite AV media}} | audio and visual |
| {{Cite AV media notes}} | audio and visual liner notes |
| {{Cite bioRxiv}} | bioRxiv preprints |
| {{Cite book}} | books |
| {{Cite conference}} | conference papers |
| {{Cite encyclopedia}} | edited collections |
| {{Cite episode}} | radio or television episodes |
| {{Cite interview}} | interviews |
| {{Cite journal}} | academic journals and papers |
| {{Cite magazine}} | magazines, periodicals |
| {{Cite mailing list}} | public mailing lists |
| {{Cite map}} | maps |
| {{Cite news}} | news articles |
| {{Cite newsgroup}} | online newsgroups |
| {{Cite podcast}} | podcasts |
| {{Cite press release}} | press releases |
| {{Cite report}} | reports |
| {{Cite serial}} | audio or video serials |
| {{Cite sign}} | signs, plaques |
| {{Cite speech}} | speeches |
| {{Cite ssrn}} | articles with SSRN identifiers |
| {{Cite techreport}} | technical reports |
| {{Cite thesis}} | theses |
| {{Cite web}} | web sources not covered by the above |
| See also: | |
This Citation Style 1 template is used to create citations for online newsgroups.
Usage[edit]
Copy a blank version to use. All parameter names must be in lowercase. Use the "|" (pipe) character between each parameter. Delete unused parameters to avoid clutter in the edit window. Some samples may include the current date. If the date is not current, then the page.
Horizontal format
{{cite newsgroup |title= |author= |date= |newsgroup= |message-id= |url= |access-date=March 4, 2025}}
Vertical format
{{cite newsgroup
| title =
| author =
| date =
| newsgroup =
| message-id =
| url =
| access-date = 4 March, 2025
}}
Examples[edit]
{{cite newsgroup
| author = Tanenbaum, A. S.
| title = LINUX is obsolete
| date = January 29, 1992
| newsgroup = comp.os.minix
| message-id = 12595@star.cs.vu.nl
| quote = I am not unhappy with LINUX
}}
- Tanenbaum, A. S. (January 29, 1992). "LINUX is obsolete". Newsgroup: comp.os.minix. Usenet: 12595@star.cs.vu.nl.
I am not unhappy with LINUX
{{cite newsgroup
| author = A. S. Tanenbaum
| title = LINUX is obsolete
| date = January 29, 1992
| newsgroup = comp.os.minix
| message-id = 12595@star.cs.vu.nl
| url = http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.minix/browse_thread/thread/c25870d7a41696d2/f447530d082cd95d?tvc=2
| access-date = November 27, 2006
}}
- A. S. Tanenbaum (January 29, 1992). "LINUX is obsolete". Newsgroup: comp.os.minix. Usenet: 12595@star.cs.vu.nl. Retrieved November 27, 2006. - Uses Google Groups default Message-ID lookup URL
Parameters[edit]
Syntax[edit]
Nested parameters rely on their parent parameters:
- parent
- OR: parent2—may be used instead of parent
- child—may be used with parent (and is ignored if parent is not used)
- OR: child2—may be used instead of child (and is ignored if parent2 is not used)
- Where aliases are listed, only one of the parameters may be defined; if multiple aliased parameters are defined, then only one will show.
This template embeds COinS metadata in the HTML output, allowing reference management software to retrieve bibliographic metadata. As a general rule, only one data item per parameter. Do not include explanatory or alternate text:
- Use
|date=27 September 2007not|date=27 September 2007 (print version 25 September)
Use of templates within the citation template, is generally discouraged as many of these templates will add a lot of extraneous HTML or CSS that will be rendered in the metadata. Also, HTML entities, for example , –, etc, should not be used in parameters that contribute to the metadata.
COinS metadata is created for these parameters:
|periodical=,|journal=,|newspaper=,|magazine=,|work=,|website=,|encyclopedia=,|encyclopaedia=,|dictionary=|chapter=,|contribution=,|entry=,|article=,|section=|title=|publicationplace=,|publication-place=|date=,|year=,|publicationdate=,|publication-date=|series=|volume=|issue=,|number=|page=,|pages=,|at=|edition=|publisher=,|distributor=,|institution=|url=|chapterurl=,|chapter-url=,|contributionurl=,|contribution-url=,|sectionurl=|author#=,|Author#=,|authors#=,|author#-last=,|author-last#=,|last#=,|surname#=- any of the identifiers (
|isbn=,|issn=,|doi=,|pmc=, etc)
By default, sets of fields are terminated with a period (.). This can be an issue when the last field uses an abbreviation or initial that ends with a period, as then two periods will display (..). The only solution is to not include the last period in the value for the set of fields.
Deprecated[edit]
None of the cs1|2 parameters is deprecated.
Description[edit]
Authors[edit]
- last: Surname of a single author. Do not wikilink—use author-link instead. For corporate authors or authors for whom only one name is listed by the source, use last or one of its aliases (e.g.
|author=Bono). Aliases: surname, author, last1, surname1, author1.- author: this parameter is used to hold the complete name of a single author (first and last) or to hold the name of a corporate author. This parameter should never hold the names of more than one author.
- first: Given or first names of author; for example: Firstname Middlename or Firstname M. or Firstname M., Sr. Do not wikilink—use author-link instead. Aliases: given, first1, given1. Requires last; first name will not display if last is empty.
- OR: for multiple authors, use last1, first1 through lastn, firstn, where n is any consecutive number for an unlimited number of authors (each firstn requires a corresponding lastn, but not the other way around).
- author-link: Title of existing Festipedia article about the author—not the author's website; do not wikilink. Aliases: author-link1, authorlink, authorlink1, author1-link, author1link.
- OR: for multiple authors, use author-link1 through author-linkn. Aliases: authorlink1 through authorlinkn, or author1-link through authorn-link, or author1link through authornlink.
- name-list-format: displays authors and editors in Vancouver style when set to
vancand when the list useslast/firstparameters for the name list(s).
- vauthors: comma-separated list of author names in Vancouver style; enclose corporate or institutional author names in doubled parentheses:
|vauthors=Smythe JB, ((Megabux Corp.))
- author-link and author-mask may be used for the individual names in
|vauthors=as described above
- authors: Free-form list of author names; use of this parameter is discouraged because it does not contribute to a citation's metadata; not an alias of last.
- translator-last: Surname of translator. Do not wikilink—use translator-link instead. Aliases: translator-surname, translator1, translator1-last, translator-last1.
- translator-first: Given or first names of translator. Do not wikilink—use translator-link instead. Aliases: translator-given, translator1-first, translator-first1.
- OR: for multiple translators, use translator-last1, translator-first1 through translator-lastn, translator-firstn, where n is any consecutive number for an unlimited number of translators (each translator-firstn requires a corresponding translator-lastn, but not the other way around). Aliases: translator1-last, translator1-first through translatorn-last, translatorn-first, or translator1 through translatorn.
- translator-link: Title of existing Festipedia article about the translator—not the translator's website; do not wikilink. Aliases: translator-link1, translator1-link.
- OR: for multiple translators, use translator-link1 through translator-linkn. Aliases: translator1-link through translatorn-link.
- collaboration: Name of a group of authors or collaborators; requires author, last, or vauthors listing one or more primary authors; follows author name-list; appends "et al." to author name-list.
Title[edit]
- title: Title of source. Can be wikilinked to an existing Festipedia article or url may be used to add an external link, but not both. Displays in italics. If script-title is defined, title holds romanized transliteration of title in script-title.
- script-title: Original title for languages that do not use a Latin-based alphabet (Arabic, Chinese, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, etc); not italicized, follows italicized transliteration defined in title. May be prefixed with an ISO 639-1 two-character code to help browsers properly display the script:
... |title=Tōkyō tawā |script-title=ja:東京タワー |trans-title=Tokyo Tower ...
- trans-title: English translation of the title if the source cited is in a foreign language. Displays in square brackets after title; if url is defined, then trans-title is included in the link. Use of the language parameter is recommended.
- script-title: Original title for languages that do not use a Latin-based alphabet (Arabic, Chinese, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, etc); not italicized, follows italicized transliteration defined in title. May be prefixed with an ISO 639-1 two-character code to help browsers properly display the script:
- Titles containing certain characters will not display and link correctly unless those characters are encoded.
| newline | [ | ] | | |
|---|---|---|---|
| space | [ | ] | {{!}} (preferred)
|
| {{bracket|text}} | | or {{pipe}} | ||
- title-link: Title of existing Festipedia article about the source named in title – do not use a web address; do not wikilink. Alias: titlelink.
- newsgroup: Name of newsgroup; a link is automatically created; do not wikilink.
- type: Provides additional information about the media type of the source; format in sentence case. Displays in parentheses following the title. Examples: Thesis, Booklet, CD liner, Press release.
- language: The language in which the source is written. Displays in parentheses with "in" before the language name or names. Use the full language name or the proper language code. When the source uses more than one language, list them individually, separated by commas, e.g.
|language=French, German. Note: When the language is "English" (or "en"), no language is displayed in the citation. Note: When two or more languages are listed there is no need to include "and" before the last language. "and" is inserted automatically by the template. Aliases: lang
Date[edit]
- date: Date of source being referenced. Can be full date (day, month, and year) or partial date (month and year, season and year, or year). Use same format as other publication dates in the citations.[date 1] Required when year is used to disambiguate {{sfn}} links to multiple-work citations by the same author in the same year.[more] Do not wikilink. Displays after the authors and is enclosed in parentheses. If there is no author, then displays after publisher.
- For approximate year, precede with "
c.", like this:|date=c. 1900.
- For no date, or "undated", add as
|date=n.d.
- year: Year of source being referenced. Use of
|date=is recommended unless all of the following conditions are met:- The template uses
|ref=harv, or the template is {{citation}}, or|mode=cs2 - The
|date=format is YYYY-MM-DD. - The citation requires a
CITEREFdisambiguator.
- The template uses
- orig-year: Original publication year; displays after the date or year. For clarity, please supply specifics. For example:
|orig-year=First published 1859or|orig-year=Composed 1904. Alias: origyear - df: date format; sets rendered dates to the specified format; does not support date ranges or seasonal dates. Accepts one value which may be one of these:
dmy– set publication dates to day month year format; access- and archive-dates are not modified;mdy– as above for month day, year formatymd– as above for year initial numeric format YYYY-MM-DDdmy-all– set publication, access-, and archive-dates to day month year format;mdy-all– as above for month day, year formatymd-all– as above for year initial numeric format YYYY-MM-DD
- ^ Publication dates in references within an article should all have the same format. This may be a different format from that used for archive and access dates.
Series, volume[edit]
- series or version: When the source is part of a series, such as a book series or a journal where the issue numbering has restarted.
- volume: For one publication published in several volumes. Displays after the title and series fields; displays in bold— if bolding is not desired, then include the volume information in the title field.
URL[edit]
- url: URL of an online location where the text of the publication can be found. Cannot be used if title is wikilinked. If applicable, the link may point to the specific page(s) referenced. Remove spurious tracking parameters from URLs, e.g.
#ixzz2rBr3aO94or?utm_source=google&utm_medium=...&utm_term=...&utm_campaign=.... Do not link to any commercial booksellers, such as Amazon.com.- access-date: Full date when original URL was accessed; use the same format as other access and archive dates in the citations; requires url.[date 1] Do not wikilink. Not required for web pages or linked documents that do not change; mainly for use of web pages that change frequently or have no publication date. Can be hidden or styled by registered editors.
- archive-url: The URL of an archived copy of a web page, if or in case the url becomes unavailable. Typically used to refer to services like WebCite and Internet Archive; requires archive-date and url.
- archive-date: Date when the original URL was archived; preceded by default text "archived from the original on". Use the same format as other access and archive dates in the citations. This does not necessarily have to be the same format that was used for citing publication dates.[date 1] Do not wikilink.
- deadurl: When the URL is still live, but pre-emptively archived, then set
|deadurl=no. This changes the display order with the title retaining the original link and the archive linked at the end.
- template doc demo: The archive parameters will be error checked to ensure that all the required parameters are included, or else {{citation error}} is invoked. With errors, main, help and template pages are placed into Category:Articles with incorrect citation syntax. Set
|template doc demo=trueto disable categorization; mainly used for documentation where the error is demonstrated.
- format: Format of the work referred to by url; for example: PDF, DOC, or XLS; displayed in parentheses after title. HTML is implied and should not be specified. Does not change the external link icon. Note: External link icons do not include alt text; thus, they do not add format information for the visually impaired.
- URLs must begin with a supported URI scheme.
http://andhttps://will be supported by all browsers; however,ftp://,gopher://,irc://,ircs://,mailto:andnews:will require a plug-in or an external application and should normally be avoided. IPv6 host-names are currently not supported. - If URLs in citation template parameters contain certain characters, then they will not display and link correctly. Those characters need to be percent-encoded. For example, a space must be replaced by
%20. To encode the URL, replace the following characters with:
| sp | " | ' | < | > | [ | ] | { | | | } |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| %20 | %22 | %27 | %3c | %3e | %5b | %5d | %7b | %7c | %7d |
- Single apostrophes do not need to be encoded; however, unencoded multiples will be parsed as italic or bold markup. Single curly closing braces also do not need to be encoded; however, an unencoded pair will be parsed as the double closing braces for the template transclusion.
Additional note: (deprecated; use url) use of googleid= with the Google style id of a posting will automatically generate an appropriate URL.
(The Google style-id can be determined by clicking 'Show Original' in the Groups UI. The Google Style id is the number between the "/msg/" and "?dmode=" portions of the URL used to show the original.)
Anchor[edit]
- ref: ID for anchor. By default, no anchor is generated. The ordinary nonempty value
|ref=IDgenerates an anchor with the given ID; such a linkable reference can be made the target of wikilinks to full references, especially useful in short citations like shortened notes and parenthetical referencing.
Identifiers[edit]
- message-id: the newsgroup's message identifier; the value in the message header between angle-brackets
<and>; do not include the angle-brackets in|message-id=; must include@.
- id: A unique identifier, used where none of the specialized identifiers are applicable; wikilink or use a template as applicable.
These identifiers create links and are designed to accept a single value. Using multiple values or other text will break the link and/or invalidate the identifier. In general, the parameters should include only the variable part of the identifier, e.g. rfc=822 or pmc=345678.
- arxiv: arXiv identifier; for example:
arxiv=hep-th/9205027(before April 2007) orarxiv=0706.0001(since April 2007) - asin: Amazon Standard Identification Number
- asin-tld: ASIN top-level domain for Amazon sites other than the US; valid values:
ca,cn,co.jp,co.uk,de,es,fr,it
- asin-tld: ASIN top-level domain for Amazon sites other than the US; valid values:
- bibcode: Bibcode; used by a number of astronomical data systems; for example:
1974AJ.....79..819H - doi: Digital object identifier; for example:
10.1038/news070508-7. It is checked to ensure it begins with (10.- doi_brokendate: Date the DOI is broken; use the same format as other dates in the article.
- isbn: International Standard Book Number; for example:
978-0-8126-9593-9. Dashes in the ISBN are optional, but preferred. Use the ISBN actually printed on or in the book. Use the 13-digit ISBN – beginning with 978 or 979 – when it is available. If only a 10 digit ISBN is printed on or in the book, use it. ISBNs can be found on the page with the publisher's information – usually the back to the title page – or beneath the barcode as a number beginning with 978 or 979 (barcodes beginning with any other numbers are not ISBNs). For sources with the older 9 digit SBN system, prefix the number with a zero; thus, SBN 902888-45-5 should be entered as|isbn=0-902888-45-5. Do not convert a 10 digit ISBN to 13 digit by just adding the 978 prefix; the last digit is a calculated check digit and just making changes to the numbers will make the ISBN invalid. This parameter should hold only the ISBN without any additional characters. It is checked for length, invalid characters – anything other than [0123456789 -] with "X" permitted as the last character in a 10 digit ISBN – and the proper check digit. Alias: ISBN - issn: International Standard Serial Number; eight characters may be split into two groups of four using a hyphen, but not an en dash or a space.
- jfm: Jahrbuch über die Fortschritte der Mathematik
- jstor: JSTOR abstract; for example: "
jstor=3793107" will generate JSTOR 3793107. - lccn: Library of Congress Control Number. A certain amount of reformatting may be necessary, such as the use of one or more zeroes instead of a hyphen; for example, if the book shows "Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 89-61500", this would be entered as
|lccn=89061500. Help with formatting may be found at LCCN (Library of Congress Control Number) and How does LCCN Permalink normalize LCCNs? - mr: Mathematical Reviews
- oclc: OCLC
- ol: Open Library
- osti: Office of Scientific and Technical Information
- pmc: PubMed Central; use article number for full-text free repository of a journal article. E.g.
pmc=345678 - pmid: PubMed; use unique identifier.
- rfc: Request for Comments
- ssrn: Social Science Research Network
- zbl: Zentralblatt MATH
Quote[edit]
- quote: Relevant text quoted from the source. Displays enclosed in quotes. When supplied, the citation terminator (a period by default) is suppressed, so the quote needs to include terminating punctuation.
Laysummary[edit]
- laysummary: URL link to a non-technical summary or review of the source; the URL title is set to "Lay summary".
- laysource: Name of the source of the laysummary. Displays in italics and preceded by an endash.
- laydate: Date of the summary. Displays in parentheses.
Display options[edit]
- author-mask: Replaces the name of the first author with em dashes or text. Set author-mask to a numeric value n to set the dash n em spaces wide; set author-mask to a text value to display the text without a trailing author separator; for example, "with". You must still include the values for all authors for metadata purposes. Primarily intended for use with bibliographies or bibliography styles where multiple works by a single author are listed sequentially such as shortened footnotes. Do not use in a list generated by {{reflist}},
<references />or similar as there is no control of the order in which references are displayed. - author-name-separator: Controls the separator between last and first names; defaults to a comma and space (
,); if the parameter is present, but blank, no separator punctuation will be used; a space must be encoded as do not use an asterisk (*), colon (:) or hash (#) as they will be interpreted as wikimarkup. - author-separator: Controls the separator between authors; defaults to a semicolon and space (
;); if the parameter is present, but blank, no separator punctuation will be used; a space must be encoded as do not use an asterisk (*), colon (:) or hash (#) as they will be interpreted as wikimarkup. - display-authors: Controls the number of author names that are displayed when a citation is published. To control the displayed number of author names, set display-authors to the desired number. For example,
|display-authors=2will display only the first two authors in a citation. By default, the only the first eight cited authors are displayed; subsequent authors beyond eight are represented in the published citation by "et al." If a citation contains nine author names and one wishes all nine author names to display, "et al." may be suppressed by setting|display-authors=9. Aliases: displayauthors.
- lastauthoramp: Switches the separator between the last two names of the author list to space ampersand space (
&) when set to any value. Example:|lastauthoramp=yes - postscript: Controls the closing punctuation for a citation; defaults to a period (
.); if the parameter is present, but blank, no terminating punctuation will be used. Ignored if quote is defined. - separator: Controls the punctuation used to separate lists of authors, editors, etc. Defaults to a period (
.); if the parameter is present, but blank, no separator punctuation will be used; a space must be encoded as do not use an asterisk (*), colon (:) or hash (#) as they will be interpreted as wikimarkup.
Link icons[edit]
Link icons are not created by this template, but by CSS; see Help:External link icons.
TemplateData[edit]
Cite newsgroup
Formats citation of the Newsgroup Template
| Parameter | Description | Type | Status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| URL | url URL | The URL of the online location where the text of the publication can be found | String | suggested |
| Source title | title | The title of the source page on the website; displays in quotes | String | required |
| Last name | last last1 author author1 authors | The surname of the author; don't wikilink, use 'authorlink'. | Unknown | suggested |
| First name | first first1 | Given or first name, middle names, or initials of the author; don't wikilink, use 'authorlink'. | Unknown | suggested |
| Source date | date | Full date of the source; do not wikilink | String | suggested |
| Publisher | publisher | Name of the publisher; displays after title | String | optional |
| News Group | newsgroup | Name of newsgroup; a link is automatically created; do not wikilink. | String | suggested |
| Last name 2 | last2 author2 | The surname of the second author; don't wikilink, use 'authorlink2'. | Unknown | optional |
| First name 2 | first2 | Given or first name, middle names, or initials of the second author; don't wikilink. | Unknown | optional |
| Vauthors | vauthors | comma separated list of author names in Vancouver style; enclose corporate or institutional author names in doubled parentheses | Line | optional |
| Others | others | Used to record other contributions to the work, such as 'Illustrated by John Smith' or 'Translated by John Smith' | String | optional |
| Year of publication | year | Year of the source being referenced; use 'date' instead, if month and day are also known | String | optional |
| Editor last name | editor-last editor1-last editor editors | The surname of the editor; don't wikilink, use 'editor-link'; can suffix with a numeral to add additional editors. | Line | optional |
| Editor first name | editor-first editor1-first | Given or first name, middle names, or initials of the editor; don't wikilink, use 'editor-link'; can suffix with a numeral to add additional editors; alias of 'editor1-first' | Line | optional |
| Editor link | editor-link editor1-link | Title of existing Festipedia article about the editor; can suffix with a numeral to add additional editors | Page name | optional |
| Translator Last Name | translator-last translator1 translator1-last translator-last1 | Surname of translator. Do not wikilink | Line | optional |
| Translator First Name | translator-first translator1-first translator-first1 | Given or first names of translator. Do not wikilink | Line | optional |
| Translator Link | translator-link translator-link1 translator1-link. | Title of existing Festipedia article about the translator—not the translator's website; do not wikilink. | Page name | optional |
| Translator Last Name 2 | translator2-last translator-last2 | Surname of second Translator | Line | optional |
| Translator First Name 2 | translator2-first translator-first2 | Given or first names of second translator. Do not wikilink | Line | optional |
| Translator Link 2 | translator2-link translator-link2 | Title of existing Festipedia article about the second translator—not the translator's website; do not wikilink. | Line | optional |
| Issue | issue number | Issue identifier when the source is part of a series that is published periodically | String | optional |
| Department | department | Department within the periodical | String | optional |
| Location of publication | location | Geographical place of publication; usually not wikilinked; omit when the publication name includes place; alias of 'place' | String | optional |
| Place of publication | publication-place | Publication place shows after title; if 'place' or 'location' are also given, they are displayed before the title prefixed with 'written at' | String | optional |
| Publication date | publication-date | Date of publication when different from the date the work was written; do not wikilink | String | optional |
| Agency | agency | The news agency (wire service) that provided the content; examples: Associated Press, Reuters, Agence France-Presse | String | optional |
| Edition | edition | When the publication has more than one edition; for example: '2nd', 'Revised' etc.; suffixed with ' ed.' | String | optional |
| Volume | volume | For one publication published in several volumes | String | optional |
| Page | page | Page in the source that supports the content; displays after 'p.' | String | optional |
| Pages | pages | Pages in the source that support the content (not an indication of the number of pages in the source; displays after 'pp.' | String | optional |
| No pp | nopp | Set to 'y' to suppress the 'p.' or 'pp.' display with 'page' or 'pages' when inappropriate (such as 'Front cover') | String | optional |
| At | at | May be used instead of 'page' or 'pages' where a page number is inappropriate or insufficient | String | optional |
| Language | language | The language in which the source is written, if not English; use the full language name; do not use icons or templates | String | optional |
| Script title | script-title | For titles in languages that do not use a Latin-based alphabet (Arabic, Chinese, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, etc). Prefix with two-character ISO639-1 language code followed by a colon. For Japanese use: |script-title=ja:... | String | optional |
| Translated title | trans-title trans_title | An English language title, if the source cited is in a foreign language; 'language' is recommended | String | optional |
| Type | type | Additional information about the media type of the source; format in sentence case | String | optional |
| Format | format | Format of the work referred to by 'url'; examples: PDF, DOC, XLS; do not specify HTML | String | optional |
| arXiv identifier | arxiv | An identifier for arXive electronic preprints of scientific papers | String | optional |
| ASIN | asin | Amazon Standard Identification Number; 10 characters | String | optional |
| ASIN TLD | asin-tld | ASIN top-level domain for Amazon sites other than the US | String | optional |
| Bibcode | bibcode | Bibliographic Reference Code (REFCODE); 19 characters | String | optional |
| DOI | doi | Digital Object Identifier; begins with '10.' | String | optional |
| DOI broken date | doi-broken-date | The date that the DOI was determined to be broken | String | optional |
| ISBN | isbn | International Standard Book Number; use the 13-digit ISBN where possible | String | optional |
| ISSN | issn | International Standard Serial Number; 8 characters; may be split into two groups of four using a hyphen | String | optional |
| jfm code | jfm | Jahrbuch über die Fortschritte der Mathematik classification code | String | optional |
| JSTOR | jstor | JSTOR identifier | String | optional |
| LCCN | lccn | Library of Congress Control Number | String | optional |
| MR | mr | Mathematical Reviews identifier | String | optional |
| OCLC | oclc | Online Computer Library Center number | String | optional |
| OL | ol | Open Library identifier | String | optional |
| OSTI | osti | Office of Scientific and Technical Information identifier | String | optional |
| PMC | pmc | PubMed Center article number | String | optional |
| PMID | pmid | PubMed Unique Identifier | String | optional |
| RFC | rfc | Request for Comments number | String | optional |
| SSRN | ssrn | Social Science Research Network | String | optional |
| Zbl | zbl | Zentralblatt MATH journal identifier | String | optional |
| Message ID | message-id | the newsgroup's message identifier; the value in the message header between angle-brackets < and >; do not include the angle-brackets in |message-id=; must include @ | String | suggested |
| id | id | A unique identifier used where none of the specialized ones are applicable | String | optional |
| Quote | quote | Relevant text quoted from the source; displays last, enclosed in quotes; needs to include terminating punctuation | String | optional |
| Ref | ref | An anchor identifier; can be made the target of wikilinks to full references; special value 'harv' generates an anchor suitable for the harv and sfn templates | String | optional |
| Postscript | postscript | The closing punctuation for the citation; ignored if 'quote' is defined; to suppress use reserved keyword 'none'
| String | optional |
| Registration | registration | For online sources that require registration, set to 'yes' (or 'y', or 'true'); superseded by subscription if both are set | String | optional |
| Subscription | subscription | For online sources that require subscription, set to 'yes' (or 'y', or 'true'); supersedes registration if both are set | String | optional |
| Last name 3 | last3 author3 | The surname of the third author; don't wikilink, use 'authorlink3'. | Unknown | optional |
| First name 3 | first3 | Given or first name, middle names, or initials of the third author; don't wikilink. | Unknown | optional |
| Last name 4 | last4 author4 | The surname of the fourth author; don't wikilink, use 'authorlink4'. | Unknown | optional |
| First name 4 | first4 | Given or first name, middle names, or initials of the fourth author; don't wikilink. | Unknown | optional |
| Last name 5 | last5 author5 | The surname of the fifth author; don't wikilink, use 'authorlink5'. | Unknown | optional |
| First name 5 | first5 | Given or first name, middle names, or initials of the fifth author; don't wikilink. | Unknown | optional |
| Last name 6 | last6 author6 | The surname of the sixth author; don't wikilink, use 'authorlink6'. | Unknown | optional |
| First name 6 | first6 | Given or first name, middle names, or initials of the sixth author; don't wikilink. | Unknown | optional |
| Last name 7 | last7 author7 | The surname of the seventh author; don't wikilink, use 'authorlink7'. | Unknown | optional |
| First name 7 | first7 | Given or first name, middle names, or initials of the seventh author; don't wikilink. | Unknown | optional |
| Last name 8 | last8 author8 | The surname of the eighth author; don't wikilink, use 'authorlink8'. | Unknown | optional |
| First name 8 | first8 | Given or first name, middle names, or initials of the eighth author; don't wikilink. | Unknown | optional |
| Last name 9 | last9 author9 | The surname of the ninth author; don't wikilink, use 'authorlink9'. If nine authors are defined, then only eight will show and 'et al.' will show in place of the last author. | Unknown | optional |
| First name 9 | first9 | Given or first name, middle names, or initials of the ninth author; don't wikilink. | Unknown | optional |
| Author mask | author-mask | Replaces the name of the first author with em dashes or text; set to a numeric value 'n' to set the dash 'n' em spaces wide; set to a text value to display the text without a trailing author separator; for example, 'with' instead | String | optional |
| Display authors | display-authors displayauthors | number of authors to display before 'et al.' is used; | Number | optional |
| Author link | author-link authorlink authorlink1 author-link1 author1-link | Title of existing Festipedia article about the author; can suffix with a numeral to add additional authors | Page name | optional |
| Author link 2 | author-link2 authorlink2 | Title of existing Festipedia article about the second author. (Up to nine authors can be listed, 3-9 are toward the end of the parameter list) | Page name | optional |
| Archive URL | archive-url archiveurl | The URL of an archived copy of a web page, if or in case the URL becomes unavailable; requires 'archivedate' | String | optional |
| Archive date | archive-date archivedate | Date when the original URL was archived; do not wikilink | String | optional |
| Dead URL | dead-url deadurl | If set to 'no', the title display is adjusted; useful for when the URL is archived preemptively but still live | String | optional |
| Lay URL | lay-url layurl | URL link to a non-technical summary or review of the source; alias of 'laysummary' | String | optional |
| Lay source | lay-source laysource | Name of the source of the laysummary; displays in italics, preceded by an en dash | String | optional |
| Lay date | lay-date laydate | Date of the summary; displays in parentheses | String | optional |
| Author link 3 | author-link3 authorlink3 author3-link | Title of existing Festipedia article about the third author. | Page name | optional |
| Author link 4 | author-link4 authorlink4 author4-link | Title of existing Festipedia article about the fourth author. | Page name | optional |
| Author link 5 | author-link5 authorlink5 author5-link | Title of existing Festipedia article about the fifth author. | Page name | optional |
| Author link 6 | author-link6 authorlink6 author6-link | Title of existing Festipedia article about the sixth author. | Page name | optional |
| Author link 7 | author-link7 authorlink7 author7-link | Title of existing Festipedia article about the seventh author. | Page name | optional |
| Author link 8 | author-link8 authorlink8 author8-link | Title of existing Festipedia article about the eighth author. | Page name | optional |
| Author link 9 | author-link9 authorlink9 author9-link | Title of existing Festipedia article about the ninth author. | Page name | optional |
| Last author ampersand | last-author-amp lastauthoramp | When set to any value, changes the separator between the last two names of the author list to 'space ampersand space' | String | optional |
| Editor last name 2 | editor2-last editor2 | The surname of the second editor; don't wikilink, use 'editor2-link'. | Line | optional |
| Editor first name 2 | editor2-first | Given or first name, middle names, or initials of the second editor; don't wikilink. | Line | optional |
| Editor last name 3 | editor3-last editor3 | The surname of the third editor; don't wikilink, use 'editor3-link'. | Line | optional |
| Editor first name 3 | editor3-first | Given or first name, middle names, or initials of the third editor; don't wikilink. | Line | optional |
| Editor last name 4 | editor4-last editor4 | The surname of the fourth editor; don't wikilink, use 'editor4-link'. | Line | optional |
| Editor first name 4 | editor4-first | Given or first name, middle names, or initials of the fourth editor; don't wikilink. | Line | optional |
| Editor last name 5 | editor5-last editor5 | The surname of the fifth editor; don't wikilink, use 'editor5-link'. | Line | optional |
| Editor first name 5 | editor5-first | Given or first name, middle names, or initials of the fifth editor; don't wikilink. | Line | optional |
| Editor last name 6 | editor6-last editor6 | The surname of the sixth editor; don't wikilink, use 'editor6-link'. | Line | optional |
| Editor first name 6 | editor6-first | Given or first name, middle names, or initials of the sixth editor; don't wikilink. | Line | optional |
| Editor last name 7 | editor7-last editor7 | The surname of the seventh editor; don't wikilink, use 'editor7-link'. | Line | optional |
| Editor first name 7 | editor7-first | Given or first name, middle names, or initials of the seventh editor; don't wikilink. | Line | optional |
| Editor last name 8 | editor8-last editor8 | The surname of the eighth editor; don't wikilink, use 'editor8-link'. | Line | optional |
| Editor first name 8 | editor8-first | Given or first name, middle names, or initials of the eighth editor; don't wikilink. | Line | optional |
| Editor last name 9 | editor9-last editor9 | The surname of the ninth editor; don't wikilink, use 'editor9-link'. | Line | optional |
| Editor first name 9 | editor9-first | Given or first name, middle names, or initials of the ninth editor; don't wikilink. | Line | optional |
| Editor link 2 | editor2-link editor2link editorlink2 | Title of existing Festipedia article about the second editor. | Page name | optional |
| Editor link 3 | editor3-link editor3link editorlink3 | Title of existing Festipedia article about the third editor. | Page name | optional |
| Editor link 4 | editor4-link editor4link editorlink4 | Title of existing Festipedia article about the fourth editor. | Page name | optional |
| Editor link 5 | editor5-link editor5link editorlink5 | Title of existing Festipedia article about the fifth editor. | Page name | optional |
| Editor link 6 | editor6-link editor6link editorlink6 | Title of existing Festipedia article about the sixth editor. | Page name | optional |
| Editor link 7 | editor7-link editor7link editorlink7 | Title of existing Festipedia article about the seventh editor. | Page name | optional |
| Editor link 8 | editor8-link editor8link editorlink8 | Title of existing Festipedia article about the eighth editor. | Page name | optional |
| Editor link 9 | editor9-link editor9link editorlink9 | Title of existing Festipedia article about the ninth editor. | Page name | optional |
| Translator Last Name 3 | translator3-last translator-last3 | Surname of third translator. Do not wikilink | Line | optional |
| Translator First Name 3 | translator3-first translator-first3 | Given or first names of third translator. Do not wikilink | Line | optional |
| Translator Link 3 | translator3-link translator-link3 | Title of existing Festipedia article about the third translator—not the translator's website; do not wikilink. | Line | optional |
| Translator Last Name 4 | translator4-last translator-last4 | Surname of fourth translator. Do not wikilink | Line | optional |
| Translator First Name 4 | translator4-first translator-first4 | Given or first names of fourth translator. Do not wikilink | Line | optional |
| Translator Link 4 | translator4-link translator-link4 | Title of existing Festipedia article about the fourth translator—not the translator's website; do not wikilink. | Page name | optional |
| Translator Last Name 5 | translator5-last translator-last5 | Surname of fifth translator. Do not wikilink | Line | optional |
| Translator First Name 5 | translator5-first translator-first5 | Given or first names of fifth translator. Do not wikilink | Page name | optional |
| Translator Link 5 | translator5-link translator-link5 | Title of existing Festipedia article about the fifth translator—not the translator's website; do not wikilink. | Page name | optional |
| Translator Last Name 6 | translator6-last translator-last6 | Surname of sixth translator. Do not wikilink | Page name | optional |
| Translator First Name 6 | translator6-first translator-first6 | Given or first names of sixth translator. Do not wikilink | Page name | optional |
| Translator Link 6 | translator6-link translator-link6 | Title of existing Festipedia article about sixth the translator—not the translator's website; do not wikilink. | Page name | optional |
| Translator Last Name 7 | translator7-last translator-last7 | Surname of seventh translator. Do not wikilink | Page name | optional |
| Translator First Name 7 | translator7-first translator-first7 | Given or first names of seventh translator. Do not wikilink | Page name | optional |
| Translator Link 7 | translator7-link translator-link7 | Title of existing Festipedia article about the seventh translator—not the translator's website; do not wikilink. | String | optional |
| Translator Last Name 8 | translator8-last translator-last8 | Surname of eighth translator. Do not wikilink | String | optional |
| Translator First Name 8 | translator8-first translator-first8 | Given or first names of eighth translator. Do not wikilink | String | optional |
| Translator Link 8 | translator8-link translator-link8 | Title of existing Festipedia article about the eighth translator—not the translator's website; do not wikilink. | String | optional |
| Translator Last Name 9 | translator9-last translator-last9 | Surname of ninth translator. Do not wikilink | String | optional |
| Translator First Name 9 | translator9-first translator-link9 | Given or first names of ninth translator. Do not wikilink | String | optional |
| Translator Link 9 | translator9-link translator9-link. | Title of existing Festipedia article about the ninth translator—not the translator's website; do not wikilink. | String | optional |
| URL access date | access-date accessdate | The full date when the original URL was accessed; do not wikilink | String | suggested |
| Original year | orig-year origyear | Original year of publication; provide specifics | String | optional |
| URL access level | url-access | Classification of the access restrictions on the URL ('registration', 'subscription' or 'limited') | String | optional |
| Bibcode access level | bibcode-access | If the full text is available from ADS via this Bibcode, type 'free'. | String | optional |
| DOI access level | doi-access | If the full text is free to read via the DOI, type 'free'. | String | optional |
| HDL access level | hdl-access | If the full text is free to read via the HDL, type 'free'. | String | optional |
| Jstor access level | jstor-access | If the full text is free to read on Jstor, type 'free'. | String | optional |
| OpenLibrary access level | ol-access | If the full text is free to read on OpenLibrary, type 'free'. | String | optional |
| OSTI access level | osti-access | If the full text is free to read on OSTI, type 'free'. | String | optional |
| via | via | Identify the aggregator of the resource that provided the digital version (usually a database provider), when it differs from the publisher (e.g., for The Festipedia Library)
| Unknown | suggested |