Template:Find military sources/doc

This template produces a series of links to various reliable sources and search engines to help find additional reference material for articles on military topics. It is designed for talk pages and should not be used in articles themselves.

Usage

• {{find military sources}} – the article title is used by default as keywords for the search queries
• {{find military sources|your search keywords}} – specify your own search query in positional param one

Parameters

The template takes one optional positional parameter:

|1= search keywords for the query. default: the article page name.

Examples

{{find military sources}} (default search: searches the page subject on which it appears) ⟶

Find military sources: Britannica · InfoPlease · LoC · SSI · MilHist Enc · H-WAR · Avalon · JSTOR · Hathi · ASP · archive.org · Google books · WP Library

{{find milhist sources|Rwandan civil war}} (example with param 1 set) ⟶

Find military sources: Britannica · InfoPlease · LoC · SSI · MilHist Enc · H-WAR · Avalon · JSTOR · Hathi · ASP · archive.org · Google books · WP Library

{{find mil|Pontiac's War}} ⟶

Find military sources: Britannica · InfoPlease · LoC · SSI · MilHist Enc · H-WAR · Avalon · JSTOR · Hathi · ASP · archive.org · Google books · WP Library

Sources

The template includes links to the following searchable online sources and search engines:

• Britannica – Encyclopædia Britannica
• InfoPlease – online dictionary, encyclopedia, and almanac.
• LoC – Library of Congress
• SSI–USAWC – Strategic Studies Institute – United States Army War College: geostrategic and national security research and analysis from the U.S. Army War College. Studies, monographs, forecasts.
• Mil Hist Encyc – Military History Encyclopedia on the Web: Original content with articles, maps, unit histories, and book reviews. Focus on WW1, WW2, the Napoleonic Wars and the American Civil War.
• H-WAR – H-Net's forum on world military history for military historians and other scholars
• Avalon – The Avalon Project, Documents in law, history, and diplomacy at Yale Law School.
• JSTOR – Full-text search of academic journals
• Hathi – Hathi Trust Digital Library
• ASP – Alexander Street – Curated primary source collections including previously unavailable content.
• archive.org – Internet Archive (wayback machine) – archived web pages and books.
• Google books – books from Google's digitized corpus
• WP Library – The Wikipedia Library, open research hub for Wikipedia editors enrolled in The Wikipedia Library

Note on styling

This template generates output in Html inline-level element context, and so may be used with all the normal in-line wiki markup to alter the font style. For example:

''<small>{{find military sources|laurent clerc}}</small>'' ⟶

Find military sources: Britannica · InfoPlease · LoC · SSI · MilHist Enc · H-WAR · Avalon · JSTOR · Hathi · ASP · archive.org · Google books · WP Library

Template data

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

TemplateData for Find military sources

This template displays a list of links to various sources and military databases queried on a given topic .

Template parameters

This template prefers inline formatting of parameters.

Parameter		Description	Type	Status
Subject	1	The first unnamed parameter contains search keywords for the topic to be searched. Example Guadalcanal campaign	Line	optional

See also

• {{military sources notice}}
• {{find sources}}
• {{find video game sources}}
• {{find medical sources}}
• {{find biographical sources}}