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Citing inadequacies with current practices in listing authors of papers in medical research journals, Drummond Rennie and co-authors, writing in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) in 1997, called for: a radical conceptual and systematic change, to reflect the realities of multiple authorship and to buttress accountability.
author-link and author-mask may be used for the individual names in |vauthors= as described above; authors: deprecated Free-form list of author names; use of this parameter is discouraged because it does not contribute to a citation's metadata; not an alias of last. translator-last: Surname of translator. Do not wikilink—use translator-link ...
For example, in the following table, an editor has gotten a DYK credit for 5 articles, of which articles they've taken 3 to GA status, of which articles they've taken 2 to FA status. For 1 of the articles for which they got a DYK credit, they've not contributed to getting it to GA status but have played a major role in taking it to FA status.
The |last= and |first= parameters are for the author's name. |date= is when the article was published. |url= may be given if there is also an online version of the newspaper article and the |access-date= parameter is when you viewed the online version. |page= is for the page of the material needed to support the statement.
Below are examples of how to use various templates to cite a book, encyclopedia, journal, website, comic strip, video, editorial comics, etc. For full description of a template and the parameters which can be used with it— click the template name (e.g. {{ Citation }} or {{ cite xxx }} ) in the " template " column of the table below.
These templates format citations to sources. They have the following major variants: {{}} for books{{vcite conference}} for conference proceedings{{vcite journal}} for articles in academic journals and similar periodicals.
The journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) has an editorial policy that specifies "authorship should be limited to those who have contributed substantially to the work" and furthermore, "authors are strongly encouraged to indicate their specific contributions" as a footnote.
In the case of the WikiJournals, however, peer reviewers are non-wikipedian experts, invited to provide external feedback and recommendations for the article. Articles that pass peer review also have a stable, citable, indexed version published in the journal, gain a DOI number, and become searchable in Google Scholar. For example: