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This is a documentation subpage for Template:Citation style.
It contains usage information, categories and other content that is not part of the original template page.

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If you plan to make major changes to this template, move it, or nominate it for deletion, please notify Twinkle's users/maintainers at Wikipedia talk:Twinkle as a courtesy, as this template is used by the standard installation of Twinkle. Thank you!

Do not place on articles containing all parenthetical citations! They're not as easy to spot with a quick glance as superscripted blue numbers, but they are an acceptable form of inline citation. Wikipedia's guidelines generally prohibit editors from changing from one acceptable form of inline citations to another, especially for reasons of personal preference or to make one article match the style in another article.

This template may be removed by anyone who fixes the problems with confusing citation styles.

How to use

To use this template, place {{Citation style|date=December 2024}} on the article page or talk page in a location that may aid in conveying the message of the template. This template may be used within {{Multiple issues}} and placement of this template on the article page is guided by Template messages/Cleanup. The following parameters may be specified for this template:

|date= should preferably be used to categorize the article in a subcategory of Category:Wikipedia references cleanup. This helps with addressing aged cleanup messages. (e.g., {{Citation style|date=December 2024}}.)
|details= may be used to provide more details on some of the aspects that should be addressed for the given article. (e.g., {{Citation style|date=December 2024|details=In particular, citation titles should be specified}})
| A first unnamed parameter may be used to specify whether the template applies to the entire article or a section of the article (e.g., {{Citation style|section|date=December 2024}}. If not specified, the first unnamed parameter defaults to "article."

Operation

This template will categorise tagged articles into Category:Wikipedia references cleanup and Category:Articles covered by WikiProject Wikify.

This template is a self-reference.

This template should not be substituted.

Template data

This is the TemplateData documentation for this template used by VisualEditor and other tools.

Citation style

<TemplateData> {

       "description": "This template generates a tag to indicate that the article needs additional inline citations.",
       "params": {
               "date": {
                       "label": "Date",
                       "description": "The month and year that the need for citations is identified, such as 'June 2013'; may use '{{subst:DATE}}' template instead",
                       "type": "string",
                       "required": false
               },
               "1": {
                       "label": "Section",
                       "description": "Specifies the region of the page to which this template applies, such as 'section' or 'table'. Omit if the template applies to the whole article.",
                       "type": "string",
                       "required": false
               },
               "small": {
                       "label": "Small",
                       "description": "Any value (such as 'y') will result in the addition of 'See talk page for details.' to the tag",
                       "type": "string",
                       "required": false
               },
               "details": {
                       "label": "Details",
                       "description": "A sentence explaining more about the problem.",
                       "type": "string",
                       "required": false
               }
       }

} </TemplateData>