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* <b id="csdoc_date">date</b>: Date of referenced source. Can be full date (day, month, and year) or partial date (month and year, season and year, or year). Use same format as other publication dates in the citations.{{r|date|group=date}} Required when '''year''' is used to disambiguate {{tlx|sfn}} links to multiple-work citations by the same author in the same year.{{sup|[[Template:Sfn#More_than_one_work_in_a_year|[more]]]}} Do not wikilink. Displays after the authors and is enclosed in parentheses. If there is no author, then displays after the publisher. {{#if:{{{aliases|}}}|Aliases: {{{aliases}}}.}} {{crossref|For acceptable date formats, see {{section link|Help:Citation Style 1|Dates}}.}} | * <b id="csdoc_date">date</b>: Date of referenced source. Can be full date (day, month, and year) or partial date (month and year, season and year, or year). Use same format as other publication dates in the citations.{{r|date|group=date}} Required when '''year''' is used to disambiguate {{tlx|sfn}} links to multiple-work citations by the same author in the same year.{{sup|[[Template:Sfn#More_than_one_work_in_a_year|[more]]]}} Do not wikilink. Displays after the authors and is enclosed in parentheses. If there is no author, then displays after the website and publisher. {{#if:{{{aliases|}}}|Aliases: {{{aliases}}}.}} {{crossref|For acceptable date formats, see {{section link|Help:Citation Style 1|Dates}}.}} | ||
:For approximate year, precede with "<code>c. </code>", like this: {{para|date|c. 1900}}. | :For approximate year, precede with "<code>c. </code>", like this: {{para|date|c. 1900}}. | ||
{{anchor|Undated}} | {{anchor|Undated}} | ||
:For no date, or "undated", use {{para|date|n.d.}} | :For no date, or "undated", use {{para|date|n.d.}} | ||
:The date of a Web page, PDF, etc. with no visible date can sometimes be established by searching the page source or document code for a <code>created</code> or <code>updated</code> date; a comment for editors such as <code><nowiki>date=2021-12-25<!--date from page source-->|orig-date=Original date 2011-01-01</nowiki></code> can be added. | |||
{{Citation Style documentation/auto-date-format}} | {{Citation Style documentation/auto-date-format}} | ||
* <b id="csdoc_year">year</b>: Year of source being referenced. The usage of this parameter is ''discouraged''; use the more flexible {{para|date}} parameter instead unless {{em|both}} of the following conditions are met: | * <b id="csdoc_year">year</b>: Year of source being referenced. The usage of this parameter is ''discouraged''; use the more flexible {{para|date}} parameter instead unless {{em|both}} of the following conditions are met: | ||
*# The {{para|date}} format is YYYY-MM-DD. | *# The {{para|date}} format is YYYY-MM-DD. | ||
*# The citation requires a <code>[[Wikipedia:Citation templates and reference anchors|CITEREF]]</code> [[Template:Sfn#More than one work in a year|disambiguator]]. | *# The citation requires a <code>[[Wikipedia:Citation templates and reference anchors|CITEREF]]</code> [[Template:Sfn#More than one work in a year|disambiguator]].{{#if:{{{limited_param_list|}}}|| | ||
* <!-- TBD: legacy csdoc_origyear anchor to be removed at a later stage -->{{anchor|csdoc_origyear}}<b id="csdoc_origdate">orig-date</b>: Original publication date or year; displays in square brackets after the '''date''' (or '''year'''). For clarity, please supply specifics. For example: {{para|orig-date|First published 1859}} or {{para|orig-date|Composed 1904}}. As {{para|orig-date}} does not support automatic date formatting, use the same date format as defined by {{para|df}} (or, if it exists in the article, by {{para|cs1-dates}} of a {{tlx|use dmy dates}} or {{tlx|use mdy dates}} template), or as used in the {{para|date}} parameter. Alias: '''orig-year''' | * <!-- TBD: legacy csdoc_origyear anchor to be removed at a later stage -->{{anchor|csdoc_origyear}}<b id="csdoc_origdate">orig-date</b>: Original publication date or year; displays in square brackets after the '''date''' (or '''year'''). For clarity, please supply specifics. For example: {{para|orig-date|First published 1859}} or {{para|orig-date|Composed 1904}}. As {{para|orig-date}} does not support automatic date formatting, use the same date format as defined by {{para|df}} (or, if it exists in the article, by {{para|cs1-dates}} of a {{tlx|use dmy dates}} or {{tlx|use mdy dates}} template), or as used in the {{para|date}} parameter. Alias: '''orig-year'''}} | ||
* <b id="csdoc_df">df</b>: date format; sets rendered dates to the specified format; does not support date ranges or seasonal dates; overrides the automatic date formatting described above. Accepts one value which may be one of these: | * <b id="csdoc_df">df</b>: date format; sets rendered dates to the specified format; does not support date ranges or seasonal dates; overrides the automatic date formatting described above. Accepts one value which may be one of these: | ||
*:<code>dmy</code> – set publication dates to day month year format; access- and archive-dates are not modified; | *:<code>dmy</code> – set publication dates to day month year format; access- and archive-dates are not modified; | ||