Template:Geographic reference/doc

This template or its shortcut  is used on a very large number of Wikipedia articles to provide citations for Geographic references, mainly for locations in North America.

Usage
There are nine different references that can be created by for references in North America, and one that is used by locations in India. The nine possible North American citations are as follows:




 * – Now obsolete. Use instead.















To use one of these citations, pass the number of the reference to the template as a parameter:  produces the first citation,   produces the fourth one, and so forth. To use the Indian reference, pass the name "India" to the template:, producing:



can be used either inside or outside &lt;ref> tags. The default options, as shown above, are for use when the template is not enclosed in ref tags. The code for these options automatically includes the ref tags. If the ref tags are not required or desired, they can be omitted by adding an "r" before the reference number. So while  produces, a properly-formatted citation,   outputs "", the complete citation inline. Note that this option is not available with the Indian reference:  does not include the   tags, and typing   simply produces an error.

Date format
The optional dateform parameter is used to set the format for dates. Setting this parameter to "dateform=dmy" gives the date in the day month year format (e.g. 16 June 2004); "mdy" gives the date in the month day, year format (e.g. June 16, 2004); and "dateform=ymd" or "dateform=iso" give the date in the iso format (e.g. 2004-06-16). When this parameter is excluded, the date will default to ymd/iso format.

Example

 * Input:

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 * Output:

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Parameters
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