Template:Cite EBO
Britannica Online. Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica. ISSN 1085-9721. {{cite encyclopedia}}
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This external link template is underused, compared to the number of links to the resource it represents. Please help convert those links to make use of this template, for ease of tracking, and ease of interoperability with Wikidata. |
This template is a Citation Style 1 wrapper template based on {{Cite encyclopedia}}. For centralised Citation Style 1 discussions, see Help talk:Citation Style 1. |
This template is intended to ease citation from online edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica (known as Britannica Online), excluding previous printed editions of the encyclopedia. Much of this template was derived from Template:Cite EJ, so credit to User:Ploni for that.
Usage examples
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{{cite EBO |last1=Einstein |first1=Albert |author1-link=Albert Einstein |title=Albert Einstein on space-time |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Albert-Einstein-on-Space-Time-1987141 |access-date=2024-11-23}} |
Einstein, Albert. "Albert Einstein on space-time". Britannica Online. Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica. ISSN 1085-9721. Retrieved 2024-11-23. |
{{cite EBO |short=yes |last1=Einstein |first1=Albert |author1-link=Albert Einstein|title=Albert Einstein on space-time |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Albert-Einstein-on-Space-Time-1987141 |access-date=2024-11-23}} |
Einstein, Albert. "Albert Einstein on space-time". Britannica Online. Retrieved 2024-11-23. |
This template is intended to provide easy citations to the online edition of the [[Encyclopædia Britannica]]. This template should not be used to cite previous editions of the encyclopedia.
Parameter | Description | Type | Status | |
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short | short | Shortens the citation format, omitting ISSN and publisher information. | Unknown | optional |
title | title | The title of the article being cited.
| String | required |
Last name | last last1 | Last name of the author of the article (if mentioned)
| String | optional |
First name | first first1 | First name of the author of the article (if mentioned)
| String | optional |
Author link | author-link | Title of existing Wikipedia article about the author.
| Page name | optional |
URL | url URL | The URL of the online location where the text of the article can be found.
| URL | suggested |
Access date | access-date | The full date when the original URL was accessed; do not wikilink. | Date | suggested |