Template:Citation Style documentation/url: Difference between revisions

* <span id="csdoc_url" />'''url''': URL of an online location where the text of the publication can be found. Cannot be used if '''title''' is wikilinked. If applicable, the link may point to the specific page(s) referenced. Do not link to any commercial booksellers, such as Amazon.com;. seeSee: [[WP:PAGELINKS]].

** <span id="csdoc_accessdate" />'''accessdate''': Full date when original URL was accessed; use the same format as other access and archive dates in the citations;.{{r|date}} doDo not wikilink. Not required for web pages or linked documents that do not change; mainly offor use forof web pages that change frequently or have no publication date. Can be [[Help:Citation Style 1/accessdate|hidden or styled]] by registered editors.

** <span id="csdoc_archiveurl" />'''archiveurl''': The URL of an [[Web archiving|archived]] copy of a web page, if or in case the url becomes unavailable. Typically used to refer to services like [[WebCite]] (see: [[Wikipedia:Using WebCite]]) and the [[Internet Archive]] (see: [[Wikipedia:Using the Wayback Machine]]); requires '''archivedate'''.

*** <span id="csdoc_archivedate" />'''archivedate''': Date when the original URL was archived; use the same format as other access and archive dates in the citations;.{{r|date}} doDo not wikilink. Displays precededprior to archivedate byas "archived from the original on".

** <span id="csdoc_template doc demo" />'''template doc demo''': The archive parameters havewill be error checkingchecked to ensure that all the required parameters are included, or else {{tl|citation error}} is invoked. OnWith errors, main, help and template pages are placed into [[:Category:Articles with incorrect citation syntax]]. Set {{para|template doc demo|true}} to disable categorization; mainly used for documentation where the error is demonstrated.

* <span id="csdoc_format" />'''format''': Format of the work referred to by '''url'''; examplesfor example: PDF, DOC, or XLS;. HTML is implied and should not be specified; displayed in parentheses after '''title'''. Does not change [[Help:External link icons|external link icon]]. Note: External link icons do not include [[Wikipedia:ALT|alt text]],; thus, they do not add format information for the visually impaired.

<ref name=date>Access and archive dates in references should all have the same format – either the format used for publication dates, or YYYY-MM-DD. See: [[MOS:DATEUNIFY]].</ref>