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This template is a "shorthand" template for creating a properly formatted reference citation to The Chicago Manual of Style 16th Ed. (current as of February 2012, without having to specify all the parameters of {}. The CMoS most often cited in articles on grammar and style, and in Wikipedia's own WP:Manual of Style.
Automatic date formatting: Citation Style 1 and 2 templates, including this template, automatically render dates in all date parameters (such as |date=, |publication-date=, |access-date=, |archive-date=, etc.) except for |orig-date= in the style specified by the article's {{use dmy dates}} or {{use mdy dates}} template. See those templates ...
The template is placed at the top of the References section.;Books-This indicates where the books portion of the sources is listed. {{refbegin}} and {{refend}} are templates which apply a certain visual style to content placed in between them. Place the citation templates in between. Be sure to prepend each citation template with an asterisk *.
The easiest way to start citing on Wikipedia is to see a basic example. The example here will show you how to cite a newspaper article using the {} template (see Citation quick reference for other types of citations). Copy and paste the following immediately after what you want to reference:
Ease of use - Simply copy and paste a citation template from WP:CIT and fill in the values to create references. It is much easier than writing references by hand. Uniformity - Citation templates automatically format references uniformly. If consensus changes about the how the templates or references should look, those changes can be easily ...
Cite templates in Visual Editor; User:Salix alba/Citoid a client for the mw:citoid server which generates Citation Style 1 templates from urls. Hosted on tools.wmflabs.org: Wikipedia:refToolbar 2.0, used in the Source Editor; Citation bot; Yadkard: A web-based tool for generating shortened footnotes and citation using Google Books URLs, DOI or ...
Automatic date formatting: Citation Style 1 and 2 templates, including this template, automatically render dates in all date parameters (such as |date=, |publication-date=, |access-date=, |archive-date=, etc.) except for |orig-date= in the style specified by the article's {{use dmy dates}} or {{use mdy dates}} template. See those templates ...
When citing sources in Wikipedia articles, the citation must clearly support the material as presented in the article, per the verifiability policy.It helps to give a page number or page range—or a section, chapter, or other division of the source—because then the reader does not have to carefully review the whole cited source to find the relevant supporting evidence, which promotes ...