Template:CiteVideo/doc

This is a documentation subpage for Template:CiteVideo. It contains usage information, categories, and other content that is not part of the original template page.

Template:CiteVideo invokes function videoref in Module:References using Lua.

Template:CiteVideo invokes Module:References using Lua.

Usage

{{CiteVideo|author=|title=|url=|timestamp=|date=|site=|notes=|name=}}

author

The author of the video.

title

The title of the video in question.

url

The url of the video in question.

timestamp

The timestamp of the referenced information, if only citing a portion of a larger video.

date

The date the video was posted in the format dd month yyyy.

site

The website that hosts the video. Defaults to YouTube if left unfilled.

Standard parameters

The following parameters are standard across all citation templates.

notes

Optional. This parameter allows you to add text beginning one space after the end of the citation. Having no formatting (meaning you will have to format it yourself), this area can be used for anything you require.

name

Optional. If you want to use this reference more than once, you must name it the first time you use it, then whenever you want to use it again, add {{NamedRef|name}} wherever you want it to re-appear.

group

Optional. This can be used to put the reference into a specific group, to separate it from other types of reference. See here for more on reference groups.