Template:Cite
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Use
For single use citations. If you need to make use of a reference more than once per article, use the citen Template
Parameters
{{cite|site=|url=|title=|by=|date=|ret=|aurl=|aurl2=|aurl3=}}
- site
- Website name
- url
- URL to website
- title
- Title of article or webpage -date received
- by
- Author
- date
- Date the source was published
- ret
- Date retrieved (the date when looked at the source)
- aurl
- URL to archive
- aurl2
- URL to second archive (optional)
- aurl3
- URL to third archive (optional)
Example
{{cite|site=Google|url=http://www.google.com/|title=Google home page|aurl=https://archive.today/po9Fj|by=Human Being}}
- ↑ - "No URL given, are you even trying?" No site name given -
- ↑ Human Being (5 December 2017) - "Google home page" Google - Retrieved 12 May 2019 (archive)