Template:Bibliography

Template:Bibliography is a template to make it easier to include bibliography data in articles. Given a book title, it generates a Chicago Style citations for use in the ===Bibliography=== section.

This documentation transcluded from Template:Bibliography/doc.

Books

The following is the primary usage for sourcebooks (note the use of the asterisk in a Bibliography list).

* {{subst:bib|BOOKNAME}}

Replace BOOKNAME with the full title of the book, or an abbreviation of the title. They are case sensitive. You may also use the serial code if an adventure or supplement has one. Some supplements may have other aliases.

Examples—

Abbreviations

Manual of the Planes, MotP; The Adventure Begins, tAB or TAB (but also Tome and Blood or TaB); Player's Guide, PG; also Folio; WoG or Boxed set; and Ivid the Undying or just Ivid.

Serial codes

Tomb of Horrors or S1; The Final Enemy or U3; The Complete Book of Dwarves or PHB6, Monster Mythology or DMGR 4; Monstrous Compendium: Greyhawk Adventures Appendix or simply MC5.

Magazine articles

*{{subst:bib|MAGAZINE #NUMBER|firstname=|lastname=|article=}}

• First parameter: Magazine name and issue number, e.g. Dragon #100, Dungeon #7, Polyhedron #40.
• firstname: Article author's first name.
• lastname: Article author's last name.
• article: Article title.
• coauthors: Any co-authors other than the primary author, separated by commas, and wikilinked as needed; e.g. "[[Erik Mona]], [[Sean K. Reynolds]], and [[Gary Holian]]".

Examples

Code

*{{subst:bib|Living Greyhawk Gazetteer}}
* {{subst:bib|Folio}}
* {{subst:bib|Box}}
* {{subst:bib|Dragon #100|firstname=Robert|lastname=Schroeck|article=The City Beyond the Gate}}
* {{subst:bib|Unearthed Arcana (1e)}}
* {{subst:bib|PH1e}}
* {{subst:bib|PH2e}}
* {{subst:bib|PH3e}}

Results

• Holian, Gary, Erik Mona, Sean Reynolds and Frederick Weining. Living Greyhawk Gazetteer. Renton, WA: Wizards of the Coast, 2000. Item code 11743.
• Gygax, Gary. The World of Greyhawk Fantasy World Setting. Lake Geneva, WI: TSR, 1980. Item code TSR9025.
• Gygax, Gary. World of Greyhawk Fantasy Game Setting. Lake Geneva, WI: TSR, 1983. Item code TSR1015.
• Schroeck, Robert. "The City Beyond the Gate". Dragon #100. Lake Geneva, WI: TSR, Aug 1985.
• Gygax, Gary. Unearthed Arcana. Lake Geneva, WI: TSR, 1985. Item code TSR2017.
• Gygax, Gary. Player's Handbook. Lake Geneva, WI: TSR, 1978. Item code TSR2010. Revised in 1983.

• Cook, David "Zeb". Player's Handbook. Lake Geneva, WI: TSR, 1989. Item code TSR2101.

• Cook, Monte, Jonathan Tweet and Skip Williams. Player's Handbook. Renton, WA: Wizards of the Coast, 2000. Item code 11550.

Notes

The template has been pre-programmed with entries for nearly all first-party D&D/AD&D sourcebooks and magazine issues. To see the full list or correct errors, edit Template:Bibliography.

A few abbreviations and aliases are supported. In particular, the terms "Folio", and "WoG", "Box", or "WoG Boxed set" are recognized as aliases for the World of Greyhawk 1980 folio and 1983 box set respectively.

In cases where multiple books have the same name, it is necessary to disambiguate (see List of D&D products with similar names). This is usually done by suffixing the edition in parentheses; e.g. "Unearthed Arcana (1e)". Take care to cite the correct book.

Use of the code "subst:bib" is recommended for efficiency reasons, as the template is currently 395,239 bytes in size and contains over 1,000 entries. Using "subst" will paste the bibliography entry into the article rather than loading the template each time.

Pages transcluding the template

The following list of pages are currently transcluding this template instead of substituting it. Any articles doing so (other than the template itself and its documentation) should probably be fixed by adding "subst:" before the template name (i.e. {{subst:bib). If this box is empty, then no pages are transcluding it.

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