Template:Acad/doc

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

This template is a Citation Style 1 specific-source template based on {{Cite encyclopedia}}. For centralised Citation Style 1 discussions, see Help talk:Citation Style 1.

This template is a wrapper template for {{cite encyclopedia}}. It links to the website ACAD (A Cambridge Alumni Database), which is an online enhanced version of Alumni Cantabrigienses, a book that catalogues graduates of Cambridge University through 1900.

{{acad |id= |name= |volume= |year= |ref= |access-date= |hide errors=}}

• id : the alphanumeric ID (e.g., "DNKS873WA") of the person's biographical entry. It appears in small print in the right-hand column header for each ACAD search result, and can be hard to spot (search within the web page for the phrase "unique identifier").
• name : name of the person/biography

For example:

{{Acad|id=MLN900AA|name=Milne, Alan Alexander}}

"Milne, Alan Alexander (MLN900AA)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.

and may also be written:

{{Acad|MLN900AA|Milne, Alan Alexander}}

"Milne, Alan Alexander (MLN900AA)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.

• mode: see {{cite encyclopedia}}. it defaults to cs1 but can be changed, e.g.:

  mode=cs2to match the mode used by the {{citation}} template.

• ref: see {{cite encyclopedia}}. This can be used in combination with {{harv}}, {{harvnb}} and {{sfn}} templates to link short format citations to this one. Unless overridden by the content of |ref=, {{acad}} creates an anchor id using the content of |id=. To link to the {{acad}} citation, use, for example, {{sfn|ACAD|<id>}} where <id> is the value from |id=.
• access-date: full date that ACAD was consulted
• hide errors: when set to yes, hides error messages

If required parameters are empty or omitted, the template will add appropriate error messages to the end of the citation.

• missing id. – |id= is required to create the proper url link to the database; defaults to the database search page;
• missing name. – |name= is required to create the correct title in the rendered citation;

{{acad}} citations with missing |name= or |id= are placed in the hidden maintenance category Category:ACAD citations missing parameters when those pages are in article namespace.

• {{vennAC}} – a template for citing Alumni Cantabrigienses facsimiles held at Internet Archive