Template:Cite web/doc

This template is for use when citing sources found on the web. For Pathfinder Tales web fiction, please use Cite web fiction to create properly formatted citations.

Usage
Below are examples and instructions for using this template. Since specific webpages and articles are unlikely to be cited again, and because of their sheer number, subtemplates tend to be more complicated than helpful. You can, however, use this template directly as follows:

The 'title' and 'date' parameters are optional but are recommended. All other parameters are required and cannot be left out. You can include wiki links in the 'author' parameters where appropriate. If the author is unknown, consider the publisher of the website to be the author of the article in question.

URL formatting
Since the majority of websites cited will be blog or message board entries, it is helpful to link to the direct entry as opposed to the page on which the entry can be found. In most cases, you can find the url for a specific entry by searching within the linked site for a specific phrase contained within. If it is not possible to link to the entry directly, please provide a url closest to it for ease of future readers.

When citing a source multiple times
If you want to use the same citation in different places in the same article, you'll need to give it a name the first time you use it (using the

Then, every time you want to use it again in the same article (you can use it again as many times as you like) you would put this: