Template:Source/doc


 * See Wikinews:Style guide for more information on citing your sources.

Usage


This will display as follows:
 * Example


 * If you cannot find the author of a source, leave that field blank. Do not use 'staff reporter' or similar. List syndicate in the author field.  Wikilink people and syndicates in this field when there's a target, local or non-local.
 * Put in a (second level) section labeled Sources.
 * Format date as shown above.
 * Always try to cite multiple independent sources.
 * Articles that don't provide a URL are listed at Category:Articles with broken source templates.
 * Category:Citation templates lists templates for offline news sources.
 * For unsupported URL schemas (like mms:) use brokenURL=true.
 * For publications (the 'pub=' or 'publisher=' parameter) please specify the exact same name under which the publication appears on Wikipedia.
 * On those rare occasions when publication name should differ from publication link target, use additional parameter 'pubtarget='. You can also use this to specify a target project other than English Wikipedia.
 * For an unavailable source (brokenURL=true) of an archived article, you may provide information about archival copies of the source using 'archiveurl=' and 'archivedescription='.
 * For an author field in ALL CAPS, that cannot be remediated by means such as described under subtemplate source/ucauthor, and necessarily should be in ALL CAPS for reasons idiosyncratic to this particular citation rather than a general exception better addressed by source/ucauthor, specify the precise acceptable value for the field as a 'cased author=' parameter.
 * For a non-English source, use the 'lang=' parameter, naming the language or its language code as supported by Category:Language templates or corresponding language-code redirects.
 * For a video, use medium=video. Also available, medium=audio (but as of this writing, not used anywhere), medium=pdf, medium=word.
 * For a source also available as a file on Wikimedia Commons, use the 'commons=' parameter, naming the file (without the  prefix).


 * Note: you should always cite more than one source. Do not list multiple publications with the same wire report; instead try to list the originating location.