This is a citation template for citing entries from The Times newspaper, a newspaper of record of the United Kingdom. The format follows the format used in The Times Index. The Times Index goes back to 1785 and the other newspaper templates such as Cite news do not convey the same information.

Usage

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Short horizontal format

{{Cite newspaper The Times |title= |date= |page= |issue= |column= }}

Full horizontal format

{{Cite newspaper The Times |title= |author= |department= |date= |page= |pages= |issue= |column= |url= }}

Vertical format

{{Cite newspaper The Times
 |title=
 |author=
 |department=
 |date=
 |page=
 |pages=
 |issue=
 |column=
 |url=
 }}

Example usage

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{{Cite newspaper The Times
 |title=The spelling of Kenya
 |author=J. H. Reynolds
 |department=Letters to the editor
 |date=8 February 1932
 |page=8
 |issue=46051
 |column=B
 }}

produces:

J. H. Reynolds (8 February 1932). "The spelling of Kenya". Letters to the editor. The Times. No. 46051. London. col B, p. 8.

Notes

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title
This is the title of the article; alias: articlename (deprecated)
author
Give the author name including the first name or initials
department
The section in which the article appears, e.g news, business, sport, letters to the editor etc.; alias: section (deprecated)
date
The full date the article was published
page
The page number of the article. If the article spans multiple pages, use pages instead. Alias: page_number (deprecated)
pages
The page numbers of the article. If the article is only on one page, use page instead. Alias: page_numbers (deprecated)
issue
The issue number of the newspaper
column
The column the article begins on, the first column is a, the second is b and so on
subscription
set |subscription=none when |url= links to free-to-read content
url
url of title; automatically marked as requiring subscription

TemplateData

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This is the TemplateData for this template used by TemplateWizard, VisualEditor and other tools. See a monthly parameter usage report for Template:Cite newspaper The Times in articles based on its TemplateData.

TemplateData for Cite newspaper The Times

Citation template for entries from The Times, following the format used in The Times Index

Template parameters

This template prefers inline formatting of parameters.

ParameterDescriptionTypeStatus
Article namearticlename title

Title of the article

Example
The spelling of Kenya
Linerequired
Authorauthor

Author of the article, including the first name or initials

Example
J. H. Reynolds
Linesuggested
Sectionsection

The section in which the article appears, e.g news, business, sport, letters to the editor etc.

Lineoptional
Datedate

The full date the article was published

Example
8 February 1932
Daterequired
Pagepage page_number

The page number of the article. If the article spans multiple pages, use pages instead.

Example
8
Numbersuggested
Pagespages page_numbers

The page numbers of the article. If the article is only on one page, use page instead.

Unknownsuggested
Issueissue

The issue number of the newspaper

Unknownrequired
Columncolumn

The column the article begins on, the first column is a, the second is b and so on

Linerequired
urlurl

no description

Unknownoptional
subscriptionsubscription

no description

Unknownoptional
formatformat

no description

Unknownoptional
departmentdepartment

no description

Unknownoptional
quotequote

no description

Unknownoptional
refref

no description

Unknownoptional
day_of_weekday_of_week

no description

Unknowndeprecated