Template:Cite dungeon/doc

More complete documentation with examples is available at Cite dragon.

Usage
Use this template to cite an article in a Dungeon magazine. It then calls   with the necessary options. For convenience, there are a number of existing templates for citing specific articles from Dungeon in Category:Dungeon citation templates. If you will be citing a specific Dungeon article on numerous wiki articles, it is best to create your own and add it to this category.

The following parameters are required:
 * author
 * The name of the article author(s). Can include wikilinks.


 * issue
 * The number of the dragon issue.

The following parameters are optional:
 * title
 * The title of the article in the magazine.


 * pages
 * Page or pages within the issue that contain the specific reference, such as 6 or 6-8.


 * date
 * The date of publication of the issue in question, for example September 2004.


 * publisher
 * The publisher of the magazine. Up until Dungeon #150 this was Paizo Publishing, LLC. Since then the magazine has been self-published by Wizards of the Coast online. This is automatically calculated based on the issue parameter, but can be overridden if you so desire.


 * url
 * If this magazine article is available free online, you can add the URL to it and its title will turn into a link.


 * format : If url is specified, then use this to indicate the format of the publication (usually PDF, or leave blank if HTML).
 * archiveurl : URL of an internet archive copy of the publication (usually an https://archive.org address). Do not link this, it will be linked to the title. Requires archivedate.
 * archivedate : Date the archive was saved in ISO 8601 format (YYYY-MM-DD). Requires archiveurl.
 * accessdate : Date that you last retrieved the publication from either the url or archiveurl, whichever is more recent.