Template:Cite book

Template:Cite book

Cites a printed or electronic book, or a chapter in an edited volume. Calls {{Citation}} for the core fields.

Parameters

Parameter	Description	Example
title	Book title (required)	Distributed Systems Design
last / first	Author surname / given name	Smith / John
last1 / first1	Aliases of last / first	Smith / John
last2 / first2 … last8 / first8	Further authors, rendered in order after the first	last2=Jones first2=Amy
author	Full author name or pre-formatted author list; takes precedence over last/first	Smith, John; Jones, Amy
date or year	Publication year	2022
publisher	Publisher	Academic Press
location	City of publication	New York
edition	Edition	3rd
series	Series name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science
volume	Volume number (shown only alongside series)	4
editor-last / editor-first	Editor of the volume (editor is an alias of editor-last)	Foster / Ian
chapter	Chapter title; when given, url links the chapter instead of the book	Scheduling in BOINC
pages	Page(s) cited	45–67
isbn	ISBN	978-0-12-345678-9
doi	DOI	10.1007/978-3-642-04633-9
url	URL (for online editions)	https://example.com/book
access-date	Date accessed	2026-05-18

Examples

{{Cite book |last=Anderson |first=David P. |date=2004 |title=BOINC: A System for Public-Resource Computing and Storage |publisher=IEEE |pages=4–10 |isbn=978-0-7695-2189-6}}

{{Cite book |last1=Manzyuk |first1=Maxim |last2=Nikitina |first2=Natalia |last3=Vatutin |first3=Eduard |date=2015 |chapter=Start-up and the Results of the Volunteer Computing Project RakeSearch |title=Communications in Computer and Information Science |publisher=Springer |pages=3–17}}

{{Cite book |author=Brown, J. W.; Cherry, F.; Most, L. |date=1992 |chapter=Completion of the Spectrum of Orthogonal Diagonal Latin Squares |title=Computational and Combinatorial Methods in Systems Theory |publisher=Elsevier |pages=285–292}}

Notes

• The author list is assembled here and passed to {{Citation}} as a single author value; last and first are deliberately not forwarded. {{Citation}} tests {{#if:{{{author|{{{last|}}}}}}|…}}, so an explicitly passed empty author made that test false and suppressed the name. This was the previous behaviour of this template whenever last/first were used.
• Separators between authors use &#59; rather than a literal semicolon: a literal ; returned by {{#if:}} is parsed as definition-list markup and would break the citation across lines.
• Write given names without a trailing full stop (first=Jeffrey C, not Jeffrey C.); {{Citation}} supplies the closing period, and the StringFunctions extension is not installed here so the template cannot strip a duplicate one.
• For a thesis use {{Cite thesis}}; for a conference paper {{Cite conference}}; for an arXiv preprint {{Cite arxiv}} (lower-case "arxiv" — Cite arXiv does not exist and renders as a red link).