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This template generates a citation for a particular article in the Eleventh Edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica (published 1911), a work now in the public domain.

Usage

This template indicates that a Wikipedia article incorporates information from the Britannica 11th ed. If the article incorporates a copy of text from it (or close paraphrasing of it), then use the template {{EB1911}} which prepends an attribution string to the citation (see the plagiarism guideline).

Error message

This template requires a title parameter, |title= or |wstitle=, to associate the source of the text being used with a specific part of the massive encyclopaedia from which it is copied or paraphrased. More information on these and other parameters are set out below. In the absence of a title parameter being supplied, the template will display the error message ^{article name needed} and set a category flagging that no article name has been given.^{[nb 1]}

Summary

The template can be placed in different locations and depending on what is required, the parameters can be mixed and matched:

Parameters	Example	Note
`{{Cite EB1911\|wstitle=EB name}}`	Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Alfred the Great" . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.	Use `\|wstitle=EB name` if the article exists on Wikisource. If not, use `\|title=EB name`.
`{{Cite EB1911\|title=\|url=\|first=\|last=\|volume=\|pages=}}`	Plummer, Charles (1911). "Alfred the Great". In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 1 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 582–584.	Some additional information: `title` instead of `wstitle`, with `url` to the external page instead of link to Wikisource `first` and `last` names of the author of the article `volume` and `page [number]s`

Detailed notes

This template is a wrapper around {{cite encyclopedia}}. In its default mode, it attributes text to an article from the Eleventh Edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica.

This template automatically sets some of the parameters passed into {{cite encyclopedia}}, for example |publisher=Cambridge University Press. Over and above the standard parameters passed into {{cite encyclopedia}}, there are some additional parameters and those are listed hereafter in a separate table.

Minimum is a |title= or |wstitle=, either:

{{Cite EB1911|title=EB article name}}
{{Cite EB1911|wstitle=EB article name}}

Full set is:

{{Cite EB1911 |wstitle= |display= |noicon= |short= |footnote= |author= |last= |first= |author-link= |chapter= |title= |url= |access-date= |volume= |page= |pages= |ref= |mode=}}

Additional parameters
Parameter	Note
author=author name	Assigned to last ignored if last is set.
wstitle=name of the article on Wikisource	If set, set link to EB article on Wikisource, and unsets title and url if they are also set.
noicon=1	Suppresses the lead icon (useful with {{Wikisource-inline}}).
short=1	Suppresses publisher and editor display.
display=label for Wikisource link	If set, this text is used as a label when linking to EB article on Wikisource. It is useful for hiding disambiguation extensions, and should show the actual title in the printed EB.

Parameters passed into {{cite encyclopedia}}
Parameter	Set to	Notes
last=	author= or last=	If author= and last= are set the value of last= is used. author2, (or last2) etc., are provided if there is more than one author
first=	first=	Set to the value of first= or not set
author-link=	author-link=	Set to the value of author-link= or not set (author-link2 etc. is available if needed)
editor-first=	Hugh	Automatically set within the template unless short is set
editor-last=	Chisholm	Automatically set within the template unless short is set
encyclopedia=	Encyclopædia Britannica	Automatically set within the template
chapter=	chapter=	Set to the text of chapter= or not set
title=	wstitle= or title= or article=	Uses wstitle= if it has a value. If wstitle= is empty or missing, uses title= if it has a value. If title= is empty or missing, uses article=. Default value is blank.
url=	url=	Set to the value of url= unless wstitle= is set in which case it is not set.
access-date=	access-date=	Set to the value of access-date= unless wstitle= is set in which case it is not set.
language=	en	Set by default within the template, cannot be overridden
edition=	11th	Set by default within the template, can be overridden
date=		Not set (see year)
year=	1911	Set by default within the template, can be overridden
month=		Not set
publisher=	Cambridge University Press	Automatically set within the template unless short is set
volume=	volume=	Set to the value of volume= or not set
location=		Not set
id=		Not set
isbn=		Not set
oclc=		Not set
doi=		Not set
page=	page=	Set to the value of page= or not set
pages=	pages=	Set to the value of pages= or not set
quote=		Not set
ref=	ref =	Set to the value of ref= or not set
mode=	mode=	Set to the value of mode= or set to default.^{[nb 2]}

Tracking categories

Depending on the parameters passed into this template, it adds the following hidden categories to the articles in which it is used:

For an overview group category of the above see: Category:Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.

Notes

↑ It is not much use to the reader to inform them that a Wikipedia article contains some text supported by a citation from somewhere in the 29-volumes of the Eleventh Edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica!
↑ The parameter is provided because {{cite encyclopedia}} (the wrapper for this template) sets mode="cs1" (citation style 1) while the other standard template {{citation}} sets mode="cs2" (citation style 2). So the parameter mode can be set to cs2 to allow this template to emulate the look of {{citation}} if that is considered to be desirable.

TemplateData

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TemplateData for Cite EB1911

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Template parameters
Parameter		Description	Type	Status
no-icon	`no-icon`	no description	Unknown	optional
noicon	`noicon`	no description	Unknown	optional
Wikisource title	`wstitle`	The title of the section on Wikisource Example Magnetism	String	suggested
_debug	`_debug`	no description	Unknown	optional
short	`short`	no description	Unknown	optional
display	`display`	no description	Unknown	optional
Title	`title`	Title of the section Example Alfred Ernest Albert	String	optional
chapter	`chapter`	no description	Unknown	optional
URL	`url`	The URL of the source article, if not using the Wikisource title	URL	optional
First author first name	`first1` `first`	First name of the first author Example Charles	String	optional
First author last name	`last1` `last`	Last name of the first author Example Plummer	String	optional
Author link	`author-link1` `author-link`	Link to the author on Wikipedia Example Charles Plummer (historian)	Page name	optional

[1] It is not much use to the reader to inform them that a Wikipedia article contains some text supported by a citation from somewhere in the 29-volumes of the Eleventh Edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica!

[2] The parameter is provided because {{cite encyclopedia}} (the wrapper for this template) sets mode="cs1" (citation style 1) while the other standard template {{citation}} sets mode="cs2" (citation style 2). So the parameter mode can be set to cs2 to allow this template to emulate the look of {{citation}} if that is considered to be desirable.

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