Template:Cite journal/doc

cite journal is for formatting references to articles in 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 Footnotes).

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

 
 * Common parameters, horizontal format

For producing a non-wikilinked date of retrieval:
 * quotes: Specify "quotes=no" to disable the quotes around the title. If "quotes" is not defined or set to the empty string, the template emits quotes around the title (default).
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * issn: The publication's International Standard Serial Number such as 1111-2220
 * pmid: The document's PubMed Unique Identifier, such as 15128012
 * doi: A digital object identifier for the document, such as  10.1016/j.coi.2004.08.001 
 * doilabel: If the doi contains some characters that must be escaped, use "doilabel" for the unescaped version. See doi: "id" is equivalent to "doi" and "label" is "doilabel"
 * 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.  (Use one of the more specialized parameters if possible; they are linked automatically.  In other words, don't use   anymore.  Use  .)
 * url: URL of a copy of the article, if available online.
 * format: Format, i.e. 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 accessed, in ISO 8601 YYYY-MM-DD format, for example "accessdate = 2024-August-27". Must not be wikilinked
 * accessmonthday and accessyear: Month and day when item was accessed, for example "accessmonthday = May 10", and year when item was accessed, for example "accessyear = 2005". Produces: Retrieved on May 10, 2006.
 * accessdaymonth and accessyear: Month and day when item was accessed, for example "accessmonthday = 10 May", and year when item was accessed, for example "accessyear = 2005". Produces: Retrieved on 10 May 2006.


 * 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;
 * &lt;/ref&gt;

Examples

 * Formal citation
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 * Include URL link to free-article, pre-print or abstract
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 * Specify the DOI to provide a permanent and direct link to the article from the publisher:
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 * Other examples
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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.