Template:Cite journal/doc

Cite journal is for formatting references to articles in magazines and academic journals in a consistent and legible manner. It can be used at the end of the article, directly in the References section. It can also be placed within tags for in-line citations (see Wikipedia:Wikipedia:Footnotes).

Usage
 
 * Common parameters, horizontal format (with today's date)

 
 * Common parameters, horizontal format

 
 * All parameters, horizontal format


 * author: Author
 * last works with first to produce
 * authorlink works either with author or with last & first to link to the appropriate article (interwiki link)
 * coauthors: allows additional authors
 * date:  January 1, 2006 . Full date of publication.
 * year: 2006. Year of publication (ignored if the date field is used).
 * month: January. Month of publication (ignored if the date field is used, or if the year field is not used).
 * title: Title of article. This is the only required parameter. All other parameters are optional.
 * journal: Name of the journal or periodical.
 * volume: Volume number of the journal in which the article is found
 * issue: Issue number of the journal in which the article is found
 * pages:  45–47 : first page, and optional last page (separated by an en dash –). Manually prepend with p. or pp. if desired.
 * publisher: Publisher of journal or periodical; should not include corporate designation such as "Ltd" or "Inc". Only include if ISSN and DOI are unavailable.
 * location: Place of publication for journal or periodical.
 * issn: The publication's International Standard Serial Number such as 1111-2220. Only include if a DOI is unavailable.
 * pmid: The document's PubMed Unique Identifier, such as 15128012
 * pmc: The document's PubMed Central article number for full-text free repository of an article, such as 246835
 * oclc: The periodical's Online Computer Library Center ID number, such as 3185581
 * doi: A digital object identifier for the document, such as.
 * doi_brokendate: Sometimes the doi target link might not function (e.g. the journal is transferred to a new publisher which does not provide doi access). A blanked out doi parameter could lead to a later editor or bot re-adding the doi. Instead, use this parameter which, like accessdate, takes ISO 8601 YYYY-MM-DD format, for example "doi_brokendate= 2024-August-". Must not be wikilinked. The doi value is still shown, but without a link, and the mainspace article is added to "Category:Pages with DOIs broken since YYYY".


 * bibcode: The document's bibcode in the Astrophysics Data System, e.g., 1924MNRAS..84..308E
 * id: A unique identifier, used if none of the above are applicable. In this case, you need to specify the kind of identifier you are using, preferably with a template like US patent, MR / MathSciNet, Zbl, arXiv or JFM.  (Use one of the more specialized parameters if possible; they are linked automatically.  In other words, don't use   anymore.  Use  .)
 * url: This should point to, in descending order of preference:
 * A free online version of the full text
 * An online version of the full text, for which subscription is required
 * An abstract or information page, if no DOI or PMID record is available
 * If a DOI or PMID is available, the URL should only be specified if it would point to a different page to that which a DOI or PMID would redirect to.
 * format: Format, e.g. PDF. Don't specify for HTML (implied as default).
 * Specify as 'fee required' if free access no longer available.
 * Specify as 'Reprint' if a full original version but not hosted by the original publisher.


 * accessdate: Full date when URL was last checked. Use ISO 8601 YYYY-MM-DD format, for example "accessdate = 2024-August-".
 * laysummary: URL of a lay summary, which could be in a popular science magazine or newspaper.
 * laysource: Name of the source, e.g. The Guardian (UK newspaper) or New Scientist.
 * laydate: Date of publication or, where this is not available, date of retrieval of the lay summary.
 * quote: Relevant excerpt from the journal.
 * An alternate method of adding one or more references to common media (preferably in Layman's terms) from the related journal citation can be specified within a single  tag using other citation templates; for example:
 * Text in the article.&lt;ref&gt;

Related news articles:
 * &lt;/ref&gt;
 * quotes: deprecated. Specify "quotes=no" to disable the quotation marks around the title. If "quotes" is not defined or set to the empty string, the template places quotation marks around the title (default).
 * quotes: deprecated. Specify "quotes=no" to disable the quotation marks around the title. If "quotes" is not defined or set to the empty string, the template places quotation marks around the title (default).

Examples

 * Formal citation
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 * Include URL link to free-article, pre-print or abstract; also supply access date unless the URL is known to be stable.
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 * Specify the DOI to provide a permanent link. Also give the PMID abstract for medical articles, and the URL if the article is free. PubMed Central free full-text repository links may also be supplied and will link the title if URL not specified, else as additional linked PMC value at the end of the citation
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Whereas if the url had not been specified, then the title is linked to PubMed Central's copy of the article and no duplicate PMC link is shown for compactness:
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If the doi link is broken, then use of the doi_brokendate parameter unlinks the doi value, indicates when the doi-problem was first noticed, and will also add the page to "Category:Pages with DOIs broken since YYYY":
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Useful links

 * Diberri's Wikipedia template filling tool that will generate cite journal templates from PMID or PMC values (as well as cite book, cite web and various infobox templates)


 * The Universal Reference Formatter – find articles using built-in Google Scholar interface, or DOI, PMID or PMC; automatically produce an appropriate cite template. Also features a BibTeX to converter.
 * Zotero – find articles in Mozilla Firefox and easily paste them into Wikipedia as citation templates with Ctrl-Alt-C