Editing Help:Citation Style 1 (section)

===Work and publisher===
{{Further|WP:CITEHOW}}
* '''work''': Used by some templates such as {{tl|cite web}} (where it is aliased to '''website'''), {{tl|cite news}} (aliased to '''newspaper'''), {{tl|cite magazine}} (aliased to '''magazine'''), {{tl|cite journal}} (aliased to '''journal'''), and others where the citation is usually to a specific item (given in the "title" parameter) found in a larger work (this "work" parameter), most commonly an article in a website or print periodical, or an episode in a TV series. {{em|Do not confuse this with the "publisher" parameter}}, which is for the publishing company. If the work is notable and has an article in Wikipedia, it should be wiki-linked at first appearance in citations in the article. If the "title" is already linked-to externally, do not externally link to the "work". If the work title as given by the site/publication would be exactly or substantially the same as the name of the publisher, do not use the "publisher" parameter (see below for more detail).
:On websites, in most cases "work" is the name of the website (as usually given in the logo/banner area of the site, and/or appearing in the {{tag|title|o}} of the homepage, which may appear as the page title in your browser tab, depending on browser). Do not append ".com" or the like if the site's actual title does not include it (thus {{para|work|<nowiki>[[Salon (magazine)|Salon]]</nowiki>}}, not <code>Salon.com</code>). If no clear title can be identified, or the title explicitly is the domain name, then use the site's domain name. Do not falsify the work's name by adding descriptive verbiage like "Website of [Publisher]" or "[Publisher]'s Homepage". Capitalize for reading clarity, and omit "www.", e.g. convert "www.veterinaryresourcesuk.com" to "VeterinaryResourcesUK.com".
:Many journals use highly abbreviated titles when citing other journals (e.g. ''J. Am. Vet. Med.'' for ''[[Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association]]'') because specialists in the field the journal covers usually already know what these abbreviations mean. Our readers usually do not, so these abbreviations should always be expanded.
:If the titled item being cited is part of some other larger work, as in a book in a series, a special issue of a periodical, or a sub-site at a domain (e.g., you are citing the law school's section of a university's website system), it is usually better to use the name of that more specific work than just that of the entire larger work. Various citation templates provide separate fields for such information, e.g. {{para|chapter}}{{para|title}}{{para|volume}}{{para|series}} in {{tlx|Cite book}}. If the nature of the work and its relation to the site, book, or other context in which it is found is complicated or confusing, simply explain the situation after the citation template and before the {{xtag|ref|c}} that closes the citation.
* '''publisher''': the name of the organization that actually published the source. The field should not include the corporate designation such as "Ltd" or "Inc.", unless some ambiguity would result or the organization is usually known with that designation even in everyday use (e.g. [[Apple Inc.]], which otherwise might be confused with [[Apple Records]] and other publishers). "Publisher", "Publishing" and "Publications" can be abbreviated "Pubr.", "Pubg." and "Pubs." respectively, but some templates in this series include a period (full-stop) immediately after this parameter, so the period may have to be omitted; check the output if you abbreviate here. They are usually safe to omit, but are usefully included where the publisher's name might be confusing without it. This is most often the case when the publisher's name is something like "Joshua Martin Publications", which without the designation might be mistaken for a co-author/editor. A leading "The" can generally be omitted, again unless confusion might result (e.g., for [[The International Cat Association]], "The" is part of their official acronym, TICA). If the publisher is notable and has an article independent of the "work", the "publisher" parameter can include a wiki-link to that article, but should never externally link to the publisher's website. Whether the publisher needs to be included depends to an extent on the type of work and sometimes on its recognizability. [[WP:Citing sources]], and most off-Wikipedia citation guides, suggest that it should be used for books (even famous ones), but not necessarily other works. The "publisher" parameter should not be included for widely-known mainstream news sources, for major academic journals, or where it would be the same or mostly the same as the work. For example, the "publisher" parameter should be omitted in these examples:
*:{{para|work|<nowiki>[[Amazon.&#8288;com]]</nowiki>}}{{para|publisher|Amazon Inc.|!mxt=y}}
*:{{para|newspaper|The Aberdeen Times}}{{para|publisher|The Aberdeen Times|!mxt=y}}<!--A genuine Idaho newspaper: http://www.smalltownpapers.com/newspapers/newspaper.php?id=1 -->
*:{{para|newspaper|<nowiki>[[The New York Times]]</nowiki>}}{{para|publisher|The New York Times Company|!mxt=y}}
*:{{para|newspaper|<nowiki>[[USA Today]]</nowiki>}}{{para|publisher|<nowiki>[[Gannett Company]]</nowiki>|!mxt=y}}
*:{{para|journal|<nowiki>[[Nature (journal)|Nature]]</nowiki>}}{{para|publisher|<nowiki>[[Nature Research]]</nowiki>|!mxt=y}}
:If the work is self-published, [[WP:SELFPUB|this is a very important fact]] about [[WP:RS|potential reliability of the source]], and needs to be specified; no consensus exists for the exact value of {{para|publisher}} in such a case, but some printed style guides suggest "author", while many Wikipedia editors have used "self-published" for increased clarity. When an exhaustive attempt to discover the name of the publisher (try [[whois]] for websites, and [[WorldCat]] for books, etc.) fails, use {{para|publisher|<nowiki><!--Unspecified by source.--></nowiki>}} to explicitly indicate that this was checked, so other editors do not waste time duplicating your fruitless efforts. Do not guess at the publisher when this information is not clear. See next entry for co-published works and how to specify multiple publishers and their locations.
* '''location''' (alias {{para|publication-place}}): Geographical place of publication ({{em|not}} where you found your copy, nor location of material in the source). This is usually {{var|City, Country}}, or {{var|City, US State}}. The city name by itself can be used for world-recognized cities like New York, London (except in articles about [[London, Ontario|Canadian]] topics), Paris, Tokyo. Simply having a unique name does not mean it is globally recognizable; e.g., many people do not know where [[Mumbai]] is, especially if they are old enough that it was called [[Bombay]] for much of their lives. If in doubt, be more not less specific, since "Toronto, Canada" and "San Francisco, California" do not actually hurt anything. Be more specific when a {{var|City, Country}} would be ambiguous, e.g. {{para|location|Hanley, Staffordshire, UK}}, versus {{para|location|Hanley, Worcestershire, UK}}. Do not use sub-national postal abbreviations ("DE", "Wilts", etc.), per [[MOS:POSTABBR]].  The location parameter should be omitted when it is implied by the name of the work, e.g. ''The Sydney Morning Herald''.  The location parameter should be used when the location is part of a common appellation of but not the actual title of a periodical. For example, the newspaper formerly known as and sometimes still called the ''San Jose Mercury News'' is actually ''[[The Mercury News]]'' and can be entered with {{para|newspaper|The Mercury News}} {{para|location|San Jose, Calif.}}, which yields: ''The Mercury News''. San Jose, Calif. A similar example is ''[[The Times]]'' of London (contrast ''[[The New York Times]]''). Per [[WP:SAYWHEREYOUGOTIT]], provide the location of the edition you are using (e.g., if a publisher has operations in both New York and London and you have the London-published edition, use {{para|location|London}}, even if the publisher's corporate HQ is in New York). If your edition specifically gives multiple locations, this can be indicated with, e.g., {{para|location|New York / London}}. This same technique can be used for co-published works, e.g.: {{para|location|Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois / Los Angeles}}{{para|publisher|<nowiki>[[Council of Science Editors]]</nowiki> / <nowiki>[[Loyola Marymount University]]</nowiki> Press}}; just get them in corresponding order in both parameters. The templates do {{em|not}} have separate {{para|location1|!mxt=y}}, {{para|publisher1|!mxt=y}}, etc., parameters.  For historical publications that are still worth citing and still findable (e.g. via book digitizers – see the "via" parameter below), do not confuse the {{em|printer}} (printing press owner-operator) with the {{em|publisher}} (organization or person that sponsored the work); an edition may have a printer's name in larger type than the publisher, but for citation purposes we care about the publisher. If the distinction cannot be determined for certain in a particular case, list both. While some off-site publishers lean toward omitting publishing locations, they can serve more than purely bibliographical purposes on Wikipedia (e.g. an overabundance of material published in one place in an article about another place may reveal an editorial bias).
* '''publication-date''': Date of publication when different from the date the work was written. Displays only if date or year are defined and only if different, else publication-date is used and displayed as date. Use the same format as other dates in the article; do not wikilink. Follows publisher; if work is not defined, then publication-date is preceded by "published" and enclosed in parenthesis.
* '''via''' (optional): Name of the content deliverer (when they are {{em|not}} the publisher). "via" is not a replacement for "publisher", but provides additional detail. It may be used when the content deliverer presents the source in a format other than the original, or when the URL provided does not make clear the identity of the deliverer, or as suggested in [[WP:The Wikipedia Library]], e.g. [[WP:Credo accounts/Citations]].  See also {{section link||Registration or subscription required}}. Typical uses of this parameter are identification of a book-scanning and -databasing project such as those provided by the [[Internet Archive]], [[Project Gutenberg]], and [[Google Books]]; journal indexing and search services through which we commonly find academic articles, e.g. [[PubMed Central]], [[Paperity]], and [[JSTOR]]; and other aggregators or indexers of previously-published content, such as [[Dictionary.com]]. Use via only when a standard identifier cannot be used (see {{section link||Identifiers}}). Example: <code><nowiki>{{Cite dictionary |entry=skeptic |entry-url=https://www.dictionary.com/browse/skeptic?s=t#collins-section |title=[[Collins English Dictionary]] |edition=Complete & Unabridged Digital |date=2012 |location=London |publisher=[[HarperCollins]] |via=[[Dictionary.com]] |access-date=</nowiki>{{CURRENTDAY}} {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTYEAR}}<nowiki>}}</nowiki></code>