Help:Citation Style 1

The use of CS1 or of templates is not compulsory; per WP:CITEVAR:

CS1 uses elements of The Chicago Manual of Style and the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, with significant adaptations.

There are a number of templates that use a name starting with cite; many were developed independently of CS1 and are not compliant with the CS1 style. There are also a number of templates that use one of the general use templates as a meta-template to cite a specific source.

To be compliant with CS1, a template must:

The following is a list of templates that implement Citation Style 1 for one or more types of citations but are not restricted to any specific source.

There are a number of templates that are CS1 compliant, because they use a CS1 template as a base, but are tied to a specific source; these are listed in Category:Citation Style 1 specific-source templates.

CS1 uses a series of templates that provide a consistent output. The main difference is in parameters optimized for the subject. For example, {{}} has fields for title and chapter, whereas {{}} has fields for journal and title.

This help page uses the names most commonly used across the templates series; see each template's documentation for details.

CS1 templates present a citation generally as:

(where "n.d." could also be any other valid date formatted per the MOS)

An author may be cited using separate parameters for the author's surname and given name by using |last= and |first= respectively. If a cited source has multiple authors, subsequent authors can be listed in the citation using |last2= and |first2=, |last3= and |first3=, etc. as shown in the following example:

If a cited source has a large number of authors, one can limit the number of authors displayed when the citation is published by using the |display-authors= parameter as described in detail in the Display options section of this help page.

When an author is cited, the date of the cited work is displayed after the author's name, as shown in the example below:

If no author is cited, the date appears after the title, as shown in the example below:

If the cited source does not credit an author, as is common with newswire reports, press releases or company websites use:

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