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

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This template is used by the standard installation of AutoWikiBrowser (AWB). If you are planning to make changes to this template, how it should be used, or nominate it for deletion, please notify AWB's user base and maintainers beforehand at Wikipedia talk:AWB as a courtesy.

This template has recently been updated to use the Lua programming language. The new template should render citations just like the old template in most cases. This template is more efficient and uses fewer resources, thus pages will load faster. If you see a problem, please report it on the talk page.

Another improvement is in the number of authors and editors: these are now unlimited. For example, you can use last1 through last100 and beyond, using common sense of course. There is also more error checking: we haven't added more red error messages yet, but we do place pages in error categories.

There have been some outstanding issues that have been resolved that were difficult to fix or where the fix caused performance issues in the old template.

The documentation will be updated soon to reflect these changes.

This Citation Style 1 template is used to create citations for web sources that are not characterized by another CS1 template.

Usage

Template:Citation Style documentation/usage

Template:Citation Style documentation/usage common For references with author credit

{{cite web |url= |title= |last1= |first1= |last2= |first2= |date= |website= |publisher= |accessdate=3 May 2025}}

{{cite web |url= |title= |last1= |first1= |last2= |first2= |date= |website= |publisher= |accessdate=May 3, 2025}}

For references without author credit

{{cite web |url= |title= |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date= |website= |publisher= |accessdate=3 May 2025}}

{{cite web |url= |title= |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date= |website= |publisher= |accessdate=May 3, 2025}}

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Template:Citation Style documentation/usage full

{{cite web |url= |title= |last= |first= |author= |authorlink= |last2= |first2= |author2= |authorlink2= |date= |month= |year= |editor-last= |editor-first= |editor= |editor-link= |editor1-last= |editor1-first= |editor1-link= |editor2-last= |editor2-first= |editor2-link= |editors= |website= |series= |publisher= |location= |page= |pages= |at= |language= |trans_title= |type= |format= |arxiv= |asin= |bibcode= |doi= |doi_brokendate= |isbn= |issn= |jfm= |jstor= |lccn= |mr= |oclc= |ol= |osti= |pmc = |pmid= |rfc= |ssrn= |zbl= |id= |archiveurl= |archivedate= |deadurl= |accessdate= |quote= |ref= |separator= |postscript=}}

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{{cite web
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 |title        =
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 |editor-link  =
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 |editor1-link =
 |editor2-last =
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 |editor2-link =
 |editors      =
 |website      =
 |series       =
 |publisher    =
 |location     =
 |page         =
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 |at           =
 |language     =
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 |type         =
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 |isbn         =
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 |osti         =
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 |rfc          =
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 |zbl          =
 |id           =
 |archiveurl   =
 |archivedate  =
 |deadurl      =
 |accessdate   =
 |quote        =
 |ref          =
 |separator    =
 |postscript   =
}}

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Template:Citation Style documentation/usage vertical end Template:Citation Style documentation/usage vertical common

{{cite web
 |url        =
 |title      =
 |last       =
 |first      =
 |date       =
 |website    =
 |publisher  =
 |accessdate =
}}

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