Difference between revisions of "Template:Citation Style documentation/coins"

Revision as of 04:37, 12 May 2012

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

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}}.

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 This template embeds [[COinS]] metadata in the HTML output, allowing [[reference management software]] to retrieve bibliographic metadata; see [[Wikipedia:COinS]].
-*Do not use parser or extension tags such as {{tag|nowiki|o}} in fields—this exposes strip markers in the metadata; see [[Help:Strip markers]] for details.
+*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.
-*Do not use templates such as {{tl|smallcaps}} or other markup in fields—the HTML output will be rendered in the meta-data.
+**Known templates that should not be used: {{tl|smallcaps}}.