Template:Cite newspaper The Times/sandbox

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This is a citation template for citing entries from The Times newspaper, a newspaper of record of the United Kingdom. The format follows the format used in The Times Index. The Times Index goes back to 1785 and the other newspaper templates such as Cite news do not convey the same information.

Usage

Short horizontal format

{{Cite newspaper The Times |title= |date= |page= |issue= |column= }}

Full horizontal format

{{Cite newspaper The Times |title= |author= |department= |date= |page= |pages= |issue= |column= |url= }}

Vertical format

{{Cite newspaper The Times
 |title=
 |author=
 |department=
 |date=
 |page=
 |pages=
 |issue=
 |column=
 |url=
 }}

Example usage

{{Cite newspaper The Times
 |title=The spelling of Kenya
 |author=J. H. Reynolds
 |department=Letters to the editor
 |date=8 February 1932
 |page=8
 |issue=46051
 |column=B
 }}

produces:

J. H. Reynolds (8 February 1932). "The spelling of Kenya". Letters to the editor. The Times. No. 46051. London. col B, p. 8.

Notes

title

This is the title of the article; alias: articlename (deprecated)

author

Give the author name including the first name or initials

department

The section in which the article appears, e.g news, business, sport, letters to the editor etc.; alias: section (deprecated)

date

The full date the article was published

page

The page number of the article. If the article spans multiple pages, use pages instead. Alias: page_number (deprecated)

pages

The page numbers of the article. If the article is only on one page, use page instead. Alias: page_numbers (deprecated)

issue

The issue number of the newspaper

column

The column the article begins on, the first column is a, the second is b and so on

subscription

set |subscription=none when |url= links to free-to-read content

url

url of title; automatically marked as requiring subscription

TemplateData

This is the TemplateData for this template used by TemplateWizard, VisualEditor and other tools. See a monthly parameter usage report for Template:Cite newspaper The Times in articles based on its TemplateData.

TemplateData for Cite newspaper The Times

Citation template for entries from The Times, following the format used in The Times Index

Template parameters[Edit template data]

This template prefers inline formatting of parameters.

Parameter		Description	Type	Status
Article name	articlename title	Title of the article Example The spelling of Kenya	Line	required
Author	author	Author of the article, including the first name or initials Example J. H. Reynolds	Line	suggested
Section	section	The section in which the article appears, e.g news, business, sport, letters to the editor etc.	Line	optional
Date	date	The full date the article was published Example 8 February 1932	Date	required
Page	page page_number	The page number of the article. If the article spans multiple pages, use pages instead. Example 8	Number	suggested
Pages	pages page_numbers	The page numbers of the article. If the article is only on one page, use page instead.	Unknown	suggested
Issue	issue	The issue number of the newspaper	Unknown	required
Column	column	The column the article begins on, the first column is a, the second is b and so on	Line	required
url	url	no description	Unknown	optional
subscription	subscription	no description	Unknown	optional
format	format	no description	Unknown	optional
department	department	no description	Unknown	optional
quote	quote	no description	Unknown	optional
ref	ref	no description	Unknown	optional
day_of_week	day_of_week	no description	Unknown	deprecated

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