Template:Cite

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This template is for citing sources.

It is most appropriate to use this when the other Citation templates are too specific. In most cases one of them will serve the purpose better.

The use of citation templates is not required. See Citing sources for the relevant guideline.

Please consider using specific citation templates before this general template. For a list of citation templates, see Category:Citation templates.

Example: Code: {{cite |author=Fred Bloggs |title=A book |publisher=A Publisher |date=2004-07-31 }} Result:
 * {{cite|author=Fred Bloggs|title=A book|publisher=A Publisher|date=2004-07-31}}

Note: As "the date" is a single parameter in the code, using something like date=July 31, 2004 doesn't work. Hence the ISO date format is used in the example.

Useful links

 * Zotero - find articles in Mozilla Firefox and easily paste them into Wikipedia as citation templates with Ctrl-Alt-C
 * Verisimilus's Cite generator - find articles using built-in Google Scholar interface and automatically produce an appropriate cite template. Also features a BibTeX to converter.