This template embeds COinS metadata in the HTML output, allowing reference management software to retrieve bibliographic metadata. See: Wikipedia:COinS. As a general rule, only one data item per parameter. Do not include explanatory or alternate text:
|date=27 September 2007 not |date=27 September 2007 (print version 25 September)Use of templates within the citation template, is generally discouraged as many of these templates will add a lot of extraneous HTML or CSS that will be rendered in the metadata.
COinS metadata is created for these parameters:
|periodical=, |journal=, |newspaper=, |magazine=, |work=, |website=, |encyclopedia=, |encyclopaedia=, |dictionary=|chapter=, |contribution=, |entry=, |article=, |section=|title=|publicationplace=, |publication-place=|date=, |year=, |publicationdate=, |publication-date=|series=|volume=|issue=, |number=|page=, |pages=, |at=|edition=|publisher=, |distributor=, |institution=|url=|chapterurl=, |chapter-url=, |contributionurl=, |contribution-url=, |sectionurl=|author#=, |Author#=, |authors#=, |author#-last=, |author-last#=, |last#=, |surname#=|isbn=, |issn=, |doi=, |pmc=, etc)