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| <nowiki>{{</nowiki>Cite newspaper The Times |articlename= |author= |section= |day_of_week= |date= |page_number= |page_numbers= |issue= |column= |url= <nowiki>}}</nowiki> | <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>Cite newspaper The Times |articlename= |author= |section= |day_of_week= |date= |page_number= |page_numbers= |issue= |column= |url= <nowiki>}}</nowiki></code> | ||
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This is a citation template for citing entries from The Times newspaper, the newspaper of record of the United Kingdom. The format follows the format used in the The Times Index. The Times Index goes back to 1785 and the other newspaper templates Cite news and Harvard reference do not convey the same information.
Usage
- Horizontal format
{{Cite newspaper The Times |articlename= |author= |section= |day_of_week= |date= |page_number= |page_numbers= |issue= |column= |url= }}
- Vertical format
{{Cite newspaper The Times
|articlename=
|author=
|section=
|day_of_week=
|date=
|page_number=
|page_numbers=
|issue=
|column=
|url=
}}
Example usage
{{Cite newspaper The Times
|articlename=The spelling of Kenya
|author=J.H. Reynolds
|section=Letters to the editor
|day_of_week=Mon
|date=Feb 08 1932
|page_number=8
|issue=46051
|column=B
}}
produces:
J.H. Reynolds (Feb 08 1932). "The spelling of Kenya". Letters to the editor. The Times. No. 46051. London. col B, p. 8. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help) template uses deprecated parameter(s) (help)
Notes
- article name
- This is the title of the article
- author
- Give the author name including the first name or initials
- section
- The section in which the article appears, e.g news, business, sport, letters to the editor etc.
- day_of_week
- Ideally give this in the short form Mon, Tue etc.
- date
- The full date the article was published
- page_number
- The page number of the article. If the article spans multiple pages, use page_numbers instead.
- page_numbers
- The page numbers of the article. If the article is only on one page, use page_number instead.
- issue
- The issue number of the newspaper
- column
- The column the article begins on, the first column is a, the second is b and so on