Template:Citation Style documentation/coins

This template embeds COinS metadata in the HTML output, allowing reference management software to retrieve bibliographic metadata. See: Wikipedia:COinS.

• As a general rule, only one data item per parameter
• Do not include explanatory or alternate text:
  • Use |date=27 September 2007 not |date=27 September 2007 (print version 25 September)
• Be careful using templates within the citation template, as many will add a lot of extraneous HTML or CSS that will be rendered in the meta-data.
  • Known templates that should not be used: {{smallcaps}} and {{lang}}.