Usage

• You should not put quotation marks around the quote.

• {{Quotation|Quoted material|Author|Title|Publication}}

Quoted material

— Author, Title, Publication

• {{Quotation|Quoted material|Author||skip italics to use '' '' for italics}}

Quoted material

— Author, skip italics to use for italics

• {{Quotation|Quoted material|Author|Title|}}

Quoted material

— Author, Title

• {{Quotation|Quoted material}}

Quoted material

The equal sign (=)

If any of the parameters include an equal sign, this will make the template not recognize the parameter properly. To fix this the parameter needs to be prefixed with "1=", "2=", etc., depending on which parameter this applies to.

TemplateData

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

Quotation

<templatedata> {

 "description": "insert description here",
 "params": {
   "1": {
     "label": "Quoted material",
     "description": "",
     "type": "string",
     "required": true
   },
   "2": {
     "label": "Author",
     "description": "",
     "type": "string",
     "required": false
   },
   "3": {
     "label": "Title",
     "description": "",
     "type": "string",
     "required": false
   },
   "4": {
     "label": "Publication",
     "description": "Use <ref> and   etc.",
     "type": "string",
     "required": false
   }
 }

} </templatedata>

See also

• Template:Bq—quote without border, page-wide; like (and compatible with parameters of) the older {{Quote}} but with more features; conversion from all others listed here is trivially easy (retaining key data, losing decoration, etc.)
• Template:Centered pull quote—pull quote between large quotation marks, page-wide; should rarely be used in articles and is not for block quotations, only pull quotes
• Template:Quote—quote without border, page-wide, smaller-sized attribution
• Template:Quotation—quote with border, page-wide
• Template:Quote box—quote with border, in a reduced floating box
• Template:Rquote—pull quote between large quotation marks, in a reduced floating area; also rarely appropriate in articles
• Template:Talkquote—for quoting other editors (or guidelines, etc.) on talk pages (in a block)
• Template:Tq—for quoting on talk pages, inline
• Category:Quotation templates