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This template indicates that an article incorporates information from the Eleventh Edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica, a work now in the public domain.

If the Wikipedia article incorporates a copy of text from (or close paraphrasing of) an article in the Eleventh Edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica, then use the template {{EB1911}} which prepends an attribution string to the citation (see the plagiarism guideline).

Error message

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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]

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

ParametersExampleNote
{{Cite EB1911|wstitle=EB name}} Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Alfred the Great" . Encyclopædia Britannica (in English) (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 (in English). Vol. 1 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 582–584. Some additional information: title instead of wstitle, url to the external page instead of link to Wikisource; the first and last names of the author of the article, the volume and page [number]s.

Detailed notes

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This template is wrapper around {{cite encyclopedia}}. In its default mode it attributes text to an article from 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 parameter passed into {{cite encyclopedia}} there are some additional parameters and those are listed hereafter in a separate table from the table of parameters passed into {{cite encyclopedia}}.

Minimum is: {{Cite EB1911 |title=EB article name}} or {{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
ParameterNote
author=author nameAssigned to last ignored if last is set.
wstitle=name of the article on WikisourceIf set, set link to EB article on Wikisource, and unsets title and url if they are also set.
noicon=1Suppresses the lead icon (useful with {{Wikisource-inline}}).
short=1Suppresses publisher and editor display.
display=label for Wikisource linkIf 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}}
ParameterSet toNotes
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=HughAutomatically set within the template unless short is set
editor-last=ChisholmAutomatically set within the template unless short is set
encyclopedia=Encyclopædia BritannicaAutomatically 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=enSet by default within the template, cannot be overridden
edition=11thSet by default within the template, can be overridden
date=Not set (see year)
year=1911Set by default within the template, can be overridden
month=Not set
publisher=Cambridge University PressAutomatically 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

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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.

See also

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  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.