This template creates standardized references to various maps published by the different Departments in the US state of Illinois.

Usage

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{{Illinois road map |year= |section= |access-date=  |link=}}

Parameters

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  • year: the year of the map, listed at the Illinois Digital Archives and Illinois Department of Transportation
  • link: to link the department name as author
  • c-link: to link the cartographer where it appears as the second author in years where H.M. Gousha or Rand McNally did the cartography work for the state.
  • section: to indicate the map section. Output is preceded by "§", the standard abbreviation for "section".
    • sections: to indicate the map sections, if plural. Output is preceded by "§§", the standard abbreviation for "sections".
  • inset: to indicate the map inset. Output is followed by "inset".
  • at: a free-form location, useful for citing the map legend or the full map as well as complicated combinations of insets and map sections. Please observe the standard output formats above for consistency.
  • access-date: to set the date the map was accessed from an online source; defaults to a known date when the URL was added to this template.
  • mode: set to "cs2" to use Citation Style 2 output
  • ref: for Harvard-style referencing, if necessary
    • letter: a letter to append to a date or year for Harvard-style referencing, if necessary