Template:Cite news: Difference between revisions

Latest revision as of 11:38, 19 April 2026

Documentation

Simple newspaper/news citation template (no Lua or CS1).

Usage

{{Cite news
|title=
|url=
|author=
|newspaper=
|date=
|access-date=
}}

TemplateData

Simple web citation template. Select Options to the left.

Template parameters[Edit template data]
Parameter		Description	Type	Status
Title	`title`	Article title	String	optional
URL	`url`	Link to the article	URL	optional
Author	`author`	Author of the article	String	optional
Newspaper	`newspaper`	Name of the newspaper or publication	String	optional
Date	`date`	Publication date	String	optional
Access date	`access-date`	Date accessed	String	optional

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-<includeonly>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
+<includeonly>
-|CitationClass=news
+{{#if:{{{title|}}}|'''{{{title}}}'''<br>}}
-}}</includeonly><noinclude>
-{{documentation}}
+{{#if:{{{url|}}}|[{{{url}}} {{{url}}}]<br>}}
+{{#if:{{{newspaper|work|}}}|''{{{newspaper|work}}}''<br>}}
+{{#if:{{{author|}}}|{{{author}}}<br>}}
+{{#if:{{{date|}}}|{{{date}}}<br>}}
+{{#if:{{{access-date|}}}|Retrieved {{{access-date}}}}}
+</includeonly>
+<noinclude>
+== Documentation ==
+Simple newspaper/news citation template (no Lua or CS1).
+=== Usage ===
+<pre>
+{{Cite news
+|title=
+|url=
+|author=
+|newspaper=
+|date=
+|access-date=
+}}
+</pre>
+=== TemplateData ===
+<templatedata>
+{
+  "description": "Simple web citation template. Select Options to the left.",
+  "params": {
+    "title": {
+      "label": "Title",
+      "type": "string",
+      "description": "Article title"
+    },
+    "url": {
+      "label": "URL",
+      "type": "url",
+      "description": "Link to the article"
+    },
+    "author": {
+      "label": "Author",
+      "type": "string",
+      "description": "Author of the article"
+    },
+    "newspaper": {
+      "label": "Newspaper",
+      "type": "string",
+      "description": "Name of the newspaper or publication"
+    },
+    "date": {
+      "label": "Date",
+      "type": "string",
+      "description": "Publication date"
+    },
+    "access-date": {
+      "label": "Access date",
+      "type": "string",
+      "description": "Date accessed"
+    }
+  }
+}
+</templatedata>
 </noinclude>