Template:Rma
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Template documentationUsing {{Rma}} and {{Ran}} allows editors to control the order in which references are listed (alphabetical, divided into groups, etc.), and to manually assign the reference "tags" (e.g. [S1] in the examples below).
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Usage[edit]
{{Rma}}[edit]
Creates a "reference, manually anchored", with layout matching the output of the usual <ref></ref> machinery. It is typically used in a References or similar section of an article. Its syntax is borrowed to some extent from {{wikicite}}. Example
{{rma |tag=S1 |reference={{cite book |author-last=Smith |author-first=J. |title=The Big Book |date=1999}}}}
outputs
| S1. | Smith, J. (1999). The Big Book.
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The S1 (for example) is the "manual anchor" – any string (preferably very short) assigned to the referenced work, and by which it will be referred later (typically using {{ran}}). The Smith source can then be referenced from article text using {{ran|S1}} (see below).
Citation templates such as {{cite book}} are not required; the following example uses "free text":
{{rma |tag=J |reference=Jones, B. (May 12, 1868). "Many thanks for the gift". Letter to A. Ames.}}
This outputs
| J. | Jones, B. (May 12, 1868). "Many thanks for the gift". Letter to A. Ames.
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The default width of the tags column is 20px. If some of the tags are bigger than that, the |tw= parameter can be used to set a larger "tag width"; the same |tw= value should be used with all invocations of {{rma}} in the article so that all tags line up evenly.
{{Ran}}[edit]
Creates a superscript "callout" (visually similar to the usual callouts generated by <ref></ref>) to a source which is cited elsewhere in the article using {{rma}}. Example:
Smith disagrees.{{ran|S1}}
or
Smith disagrees.{{ran|tag=S1}}
would appear in the article thus:
- Smith disagrees.[S1]
(Click on the superscript [S1] to see how the linking operates.)
Like {{rp}} (and {{r}} for that matter), {{ran}} also accepts a |page= parameter:
Smith disagrees.{{ran|S1|page=22}}
or
Smith disagrees.{{ran|tag=S1|page=22}}
would appear as:
- Smith disagrees.[S1]: 22
(|page= has a shorthand alias |p= parameter. For plural pages |pages= and |pp= can be used instead, and for other in-source-locations use |at= or |loc=. |style=ama and |no-pp=y[es] can be used to switch the display format.)
Also like {{rp}} and {{r}}, {{ran}} supports optional |quote=/|q=, |language=code/name/|l=code/name, |trans-quote=/|tq= and |wrap=n[o]/y[es]/f[orced] parameters. If the quote page are not the same as the pages specified through one of the pages parameters above, |quote-page=/|qp= and |quote-pages=/|qpp= can be used to override those values. The parameters |needed=, |reason= and |date= of the {{Page needed}} template are supported as well.
See also[edit]
- {{rp}}, a template internally used by {{ran}} to provide the superscript link appendices.
- {{r}}, a citation system with similar output than {{rp}} (and {{ran}}), but using MediaWiki's Cite extension internally
- BattletechWiki:Footnotes
- BattletechWiki:Citing sources