Template:Vcite journal/doc
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These templates format citations to sources. They have the following major variants:
- {{vcite book}} for books
- {{vcite conference}} for conference proceedings
- {{vcite journal}} for articles in academic journals and similar periodicals. You can use the Diberri template filler to generate this template, by replacing "
cite
" with "vcite
" in its output. - {{vcite news}} for articles in newspapers and similar news sources
- {{vcite web}} for web pages, that is, sources published as part of web sites that are not books, journals, or news
![]() | This is a documentation subpage for Template:Vcite journal. It may contain usage information, categories and other content that is not part of the original template page. |
![]() | This page in a nutshell: These templates format citations. They are like {{cite book}}, {{cite journal}}, etc., except that they use the Vancouver system, a popular citation style in science and medicine. |
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These templates can be used in Wikipedia footnotes and in article sections that list sources. They generally follow the Vancouver system as specified by the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM).[1] For performance reasons they do not generate COinS metadata (see Rationale below); otherwise, they act much like {{cite book}}, {{cite journal}}, etc.
Another alternative is to use the |vauthors=
parameter in the regular {{cite book}}, {{cite journal}}, etc. templates. This will format the authors according to the Vancouver system and generate clean meta data (see Template:Cite journal#COinS).