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| | This category encompasses all '''Bibliography Templates'''. | | This category encompasses all '''Bibliography Templates'''. |
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| − | A Bibliography template, in the new form, is one that can either be used for a compact citation in the article body or to provide a complete source ID for use in an article's bibliography.
| + | These should be renamed and converted over to the new form of [[:Category:Citable Source Templates|Citable Source Templates]], which make adding footnotes easy as cake. |
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| − | Here is an example of how these are used. As a citation, a single parameter is used to specify the page number (or similar details particular to this citation, but not to the source itself).
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| − | The cheetah is the fastest animal on earth.{{BibTest|p. 5}}
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| − | </nowiki>
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| − | </blockquote>
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| − | When citing this source in a Bibliography section, however, no parameter is used. The template spits out a long format reference with a leading bullet.
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| − | <nowiki>==Bibliography==</nowiki>
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| − | <nowiki>{{BibTest}}</nowiki>
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| − | </blockquote>
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| − | How does one write such a template? The basic form is
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| − | <nowiki>{{Fn|Complete bibliography reference|Abbreviated reference|{{{1|}}}}}<noinclude>[[Category:Bibliography Templates]]</noinclude></nowiki>
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| − | </blockquote>
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| − | Note that it calls another template called Fn, and hands it three parameters:
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| − | * the bibliographic (long format) description of the source (final period omitted). This should refer to the entire book, generally.
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| − | * the abbreviated footnote mention of the same work (again, no final period)
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| − | * three open braces, digit 1, a pipe character, and five close braces: <nowiki>{{{1|}}}</nowiki>
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| − | * there should be NO line breaks anywhere, or ugly whitespace and bullets may result in use
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