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*When the title you are citing contains quotations marks or apostrophes at the beginning, end or both, you can use <code>&amp;thinsp;</code> to place a separation between that punctuation and the quotation marks this template automatically provides around the title, to avoid a non-ideal display such as <nowiki>'''</nowiki>.  
 
*When the title you are citing contains quotations marks or apostrophes at the beginning, end or both, you can use <code>&amp;thinsp;</code> to place a separation between that punctuation and the quotation marks this template automatically provides around the title, to avoid a non-ideal display such as <nowiki>'''</nowiki>.  
 
:*For example instead of {{xt|<nowiki>title='name'</nowiki>}} which will display on many browsers with the quotation marks surrounding it as {{!xt|<nowiki>'''name'''</nowiki>}}, use {{xt|<nowiki>|title=</nowiki>}}{{!xt|&amp;thinsp;}}'name'{{!xt|&amp;thinsp;}}, which will display as "&thinsp;'name'&thinsp;".}}
 
:*For example instead of {{xt|<nowiki>title='name'</nowiki>}} which will display on many browsers with the quotation marks surrounding it as {{!xt|<nowiki>'''name'''</nowiki>}}, use {{xt|<nowiki>|title=</nowiki>}}{{!xt|&amp;thinsp;}}'name'{{!xt|&amp;thinsp;}}, which will display as "&thinsp;'name'&thinsp;".}}
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:* '''title-link''': Title of existing Wikipedia article about the source named in '''title''' – do not use a web address; do not wikilink. Alias: '''titlelink'''.

Revision as of 22:19, 21 January 2015

  • title: Title of source. Can be wikilinked to an existing Wikipedia article or url may be used to add an external link, but not both. Displays in italics.
    • 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.
Titles containing certain characters will display and link incorrectly unless those characters are encoded.
newline [ ] |
space &#91; &#93; &#124;
  • title-link: Title of existing Wikipedia article about the source named in title – do not use a web address; do not wikilink. Alias: titlelink.