Template:Cite dragon/doc

Usage
Use this template to cite an article in a Dragon magazine. It then calls   with the necessary options. For convenience, there are a number of existing templates for citing specific articles from Dragon in Category:Dragon citation templates. If you will be citing a specific Dragon 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 Dragon #359 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.