Template:Harvc/doc

This is a documentation subpage for Template:Harvc. It may contain usage information, categories and other content that is not part of the original template page.

This template uses Lua: Module:Harvc (sandbox)

This template uses TemplateStyles: Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css (sandbox)

This template is a citation hybrid that has characteristics of long-form cs1 and cs2, of short-form {{sfn}} and of the {{harv}} families of templates. Its purpose is to provide a method that allows editors to refer to a contribution or chapter in a larger work when more than a few such referrals are required. {{harvc}} is not a substitute for a properly constructed citation.

Short-form templates {{sfn}} and {{harv}} are often used to link from an article's references section to a long-form cs1|2 template in a bibliography section:

{{harv}} → {{cite book}} or: {{sfn}} → {{cite book}}

It is not uncommon for a source to have multiple contributors. When it is necessary to refer to multiple contributions in the same source, repeating all of the bibliographic details in multiple long-form citation templates adds to references-section clutter. {{harvc}} is designed to hold only the detail necessary to identify a contribution and link to the enclosing work's long-form citation where all of the bibliographic detail can be found:

{{harv}} → {{harvc}} → {{cite book}} or: {{sfn}} → {{harvc}} → {{cite book}}