Template:Cite journal/doc



Cite journal is a template used to format references to articles in magazines and academic journals and for academic papers in a consistent and legible manner. It can be placed within  tags for in-line citations or directly as an entry in the References section.

Cite journal is intended for papers in journals, which are issued periodically and have volume and (usually) issue numbers. It is not intended for conference proceedings, which should be cited with Cite conference. Nor is it intended for articles in edited books or in encyclopedias or similar collections, which should be cited with Cite encyclopedia (which, despite its name, applies to all edited collections, not only encyclopedias).

Easier ways of citing are available. If the paper:


 * has a DOI, cite doi can be used,
 * is stored in JSTOR, cite jstor can be used,
 * is listed on PubMed, cite pmid can be used.

Usage
All field names must be lowercase. Unused fields should be removed, rather than left blank.

Common parameters, horizontal format
Day Month Year

Month Day, Year

Common parameters for Vancouver system citations
Day Month Year for Vancouver system citations

Month Day, Year for Vancouver system citations

All parameters
All parameters, horizontal format

Result (all parameters, using last name, first name)



Result (common parameters, using author)



Examples
Formal citation

Vancouver style (common in biomedicine); see for specific templates

Include URL link to free-article, pre-print or abstract; also supply access date unless the URL is known to be stable.

'''Specify the DOI to provide a permanent link. Also give the PMID abstract for medical articles, and the URL if the article is free. PubMed Central free full-text repository links may also be supplied and will link the title if URL not specified, else as additional linked PMC value at the end of the citation'''

Whereas if the url had not been specified, then the title is linked to PubMed Central's copy of the article and no duplicate PMC link is shown for compactness:

If the doi link is broken, then use of the doi_brokendate parameter unlinks the doi value, indicates when the doi-problem was first noticed, and will also add the page to "Category:Pages with DOIs broken since YYYY":

If the article is in a foreign language, and the original title is unknown

Other examples