Citation Style 2 (CS2) is a style applied to citations on Wikipedia. It is used by default in the general purpose citation template {{Citation}}, and available as an option in many other templates. The commonly-used citation templates have two style modes.[1] These modes change how the citation is punctuated when it's rendered. CS2 primarily uses the comma as a separator, and it does not have a punctuation mark at the end of the citation. Citation Style 1 (CS1) uses the full stop as a separator and for terminal punctuation.[2] For example:
- CS2
- Carroll, Lewis (1866), Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, London: Macmillan
- CS1
- Carroll, Lewis (1866). Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. London: Macmillan.
When you use any template, please consider reviewing its documentation. You can find it at the template's page in the template namespace by searching for Template: plus the name of the template; for example, to find the documentation for {{Citation}}, enter Template:Citation in the Search box.
Style
- With author
- Elk, Anne (November 16, 1972), Anne Elk's Theory on Brontosauruses, Monty Python's Flying Circus
- Without author
- Anne Elk's Theory on Brontosauruses, Monty Python's Flying Circus, November 16, 1972
Citation Style 2 differs from Citation Style 1 in these specific style characteristics:
- uses a comma to separate individual elements of a rendered citation (CS1 is a fullstop)
- terminal punctuation is omitted from the rendered citation unless overridden by
|postscript=(CS1 is a fullstop)
Apply CS2 to a single citation
By default, the {{Citation}} template uses CS2 formatting. To apply CS2 formatting to other citation templates, add |mode=cs2 to the template's parameters. For example, {{cite web}} uses CS1 formatting, but {{cite web |mode=cs2}} uses CS2 formatting.
Apply CS2 to all citations in an article
Add {{cs1 config |mode=cs2}} to the article, preferably near the top of the page,[3] to apply CS2 formatting to all citations on a page using Module:Citation/CS1.
Citation template
The general purpose {{Citation}} template uses CS2 by default. It determines the citation type by examining which parameters are used. As with other citation templates, it can be used either in a footnote (between <ref>...</ref> tags) or in a section that lists sources. For example:
{{Citation | last = Turner | first = Orsamus | title = History of the pioneer settlement of Phelps and Gorham's purchase, and Morris' reserve | publisher = William Alling | place = Rochester, New York | year = 1851 | ol = 7120924W }} | Turner, Orsamus (1851), History of the pioneer settlement of Phelps and Gorham's purchase, and Morris' reserve, Rochester, New York: William Alling, OL 7120924W |
Notes
Tools
- User:Trappist the monk/HarvErrors is a script that may be enabled to display errors when using shortened footnotes. (See Help:Shortened footnotes for details on links and anchors.)
- User:Nardog/RefRenamer will replace the names that the VisualEditor auto-generates for named references (":0") with names using the parameters from the citation template ("Smith-2015").
- Wikipedia:ProveIt is a gadget that offers a visual interface for editing and generating citation templates.
- User:Mesidast/Tidy citations.js normalizes spacing in all citations on a given page.
- User:Lingzhi2/reviewsourcecheck-sb.js is a script that will note which citations on a given page are inconsistent.