Template:StandardRef

This template is deprecated

This experimental template has been superceded by a new set of citation templates: csb, cite dragon, cite dungeon, cite polyhedron, cite lgj, and bib.

This template was an attempt to embed citation date in an article's own page. However, the drawback was that it only allowed citing sources which had an article at this wiki. This made it difficult to cite individual magazine issues and non-Greyhawk sourcebooks.

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An experimental template to allow articles on Greyhawk sources to act as their own citation template. In general, you don't use this template directly, but instead include it on any page which can be cited as a source.

All pages on Greyhawk works must have a StandardRef entry, usually in its Bibliography section. For a list of pages which can be cited, see Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:StandardRef.

Usage

Generate bibliography template

To display a book's bibliography entry in Chicago Style, use the following style of syntax:

*{{:Living Greyhawk Gazetteer}}

Page redirects are respected, so you can often use an abbreviation:

*{{:LGG}}

Generate inline citation

Inline citations are important. If you provide a parameter after the name, it is taken as a page number, and produces an inline instead.

Some examples of valid formats:

{{:Living Greyhawk Gazetteer|65}}
{{:Living Greyhawk Gazetteer|87-91}}
{{:LGG|65}}

Handling box sets

If your product is a box set containing multiple books, you must specify the book in a second parameter. If the book doesn't have page numbers (e.g. a map or index card), leave the page number field empty. You can sometimes just name the book, in cases where aliases have been set up.

{{:World of Greyhawk Fantasy Game Setting|9|A Guide to the World of Greyhawk}}
{{:World of Greyhawk Fantasy Game Setting||Map}}
{{:Guide|9}}

Handling magazine articles

Titles of magazine articles can also be supplied in the second parameter. The magazines themselves should be written with the name followed by a number; e.g. "Dragon 263"; the page for that entry will automatically fill in other details.

{{:Dragon 263|46-48|The Oeridian Lesser Gods}}
{{:Dungeon 117|46|Touch of the Abyss}}

Sources without pages at this wiki

A limitation of this convenient syntax is that there must be an article at this wiki for that sourcebook. If attempt to cite a book which does not have a page at this wiki, it will cause a missing template error. This wiki only covers Greyhawk sourcebooks, and you may wish to cite an outside source; e.g. another campaign setting, a third-party sourcebook, or a website.

However, you can use StandardRef directly; the syntax is just longer. At minimum, you must give a title, and a page number or "sub" attribute.

{{StandardRef|title=Dungeon Master's Guide (4e)|page=42|year=2008}}
{{StandardRef|title=Anna Meyer’s Map of the Flanaess|url=https://greyhawkonline.com/ghmaps/|sub=GreyhawkOnline}}

Add this template to a page

All articles on World of Greyhawk books must include this template. Copy this code into a bibliography entry.

===Bibliography===
* <onlyinclude>{{StandardRef
|title   = {{subst:PAGENAME}}
|article = {{subst:PAGENAME}}
|page    = {{{1|}}}
|sub     = {{{2|}}}
|year    = 
|month   = 
|abbr    = 
|code    = 
|prefix  = 
|box     = 
|canon   = 
|cs      = {{subst:bib|{{subst:PAGENAME}}}}
|url     = 
}}</onlyinclude>

Template documentation

title

Title of the book. You can almost always leave this as {{subst:PAGENAME}}, but there may be special cases. For example, the page for WG7 Castle Greyhawk is located at "Castle Greyhawk (adventure)". To resolve this, a duplicate StandardRef template should be included in the page "Castle Greyhawk" inside <includeonly> tags, so that it works as editors expect.

article

Title of the book's article at this wiki. Usually the same as the title, but it may differ. For example, the "title" of WG7 is Castle Greyhawk, but the "article" is Castle Greyhawk (adventure). If you leave this blank, it will not form a link (unless it also has a URL).

page

Always leave this as {{{1|}}} for the template to work correctly.

sub

Always leave this as {{{2|}}} for the template to work correctly.

year

Year the book was first published.

month

(Magazine issues and online articles only) Month the issue was published. Use the three-letter abbreviated form of the month (i.e. Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep, Oct, Nov, Dec).

abbr

A unique abbreviation for the book, e.g. "LGG". Used by the citation template.

code

TSR/WotC product code used in the bibliography, e.g. TSR11743.

prefix

Series code used to identify the book, e.g. WGR, WGA1, T1-4. Many products have no series code, and this can be left blank.

box

Does this product contain multiple books? "yes" if it is, "no" or leave blank if it isn't. The dividing line is: can I cite a page in this product without having to specify which book? For example, you cannot cite The City of Greyhawk without specifying which of its books you are referring to.

canon

Canon status as per this wiki's canon policy. One of: "Canon", "Apocrypha", "Fan Work", or "Unknown".

cs

A full Chicago Style citation line for the book.

url

(Web articles only) URL of article.