Template:Wikiref/doc

Template:wikiref makes a simple Harvard-style citation reference, for use in the text of an article to link to a citation in your "References" section. Cut-’n’-paste:

The "id" is a unique identifier used for the reference link on the page, compatible with some other reference templates (100% compatible with wikicite, if you use the format Author-2006; use an underscore for a space: Von_Autor-2006). The "text" is the text of a reference citation, typically something like Author 2006, or with a page number: Author 2006b:135. The reference is formatted through editing wikitext. Recommended format:

Result:

Looks too simple to even bother using a template? It is! Just type your references into the article text, like so:, to yield a Harvard-style reference like this (Atwood 2003). Doing it manually is more flexible, for things like multiple citations and different formats—see various examples throughout the article "T-34".

Features

 * Compatible with Harvard reference style: editor has 100% control of the format through a technology called editing wikitext

Technical features:
 * Produces well-formed, accessible, semantically-correct XHTML code
 * Compatible many other templates' reference anchors (any id which starts with "Reference-")
 * No conditionals
 * No Qif
 * No CSS hacks