This template will automatically generate a readable link to an article within a larger work (such as periodicals and encyclopaedia) from just the page name of the article.

Usage edit

{{autolink|full page name|alternative article name}}

The second unnamed parameter is optional.

{{autolink
 | title        = 
 | displaytitle = 
 | date         = 
 | author       = 
}}

The parameters displaytitle, date and author are optional.

Automatic formatting edit

The data will be extracted from the link automatically in the cases of the following common works, in some cases calling specific link templates:

Work Link template
1911 Encyclopædia Britannica {{EB1911 link}}
1922 Encyclopædia Britannica {{EB1922 Link}}
The American Review {{American Review link}}
Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography {{Appletons' link}}
The Encyclopedia Americana (1906) {{Americana link}}
The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)
Catholic Encyclopedia (1913) {{CE link}}
A Chinese Biographical Dictionary {{CBD article link}}
CIA World Fact Book, 2004 none
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921) {{Collier's link}}
A Compendium of Irish Biography {{IrishBio link}}
Dictionary of Christian Biography... {{DCBL link}}
A Dictionary of Music and Musicians {{DMM link}}
Easton's Bible Dictionary {{EBD link}}
The Indian Biographical Dictionary (1915) {{IndianBio link}}
Men-at-the-Bar {{Men-at-the-Bar link}}
The New International Encyclopædia {{NIE link}}
The New Student's Reference Work {{NSRW link}}
Popular Science Monthly {{PSM link}}
A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature {{SBDEL link}}
Southern Historical Society Papers {{SHSP link}}

Examples edit

{{autolink|Popular Science Monthly/Volume 16/February 1880/Maps and Map-Making Before Mercator}}

"Maps and Map-Making Before Mercator" in Popular Science Monthly, 16 (February 1880).

{{autolink|Popular Science Monthly/Volume 16/February 1880/The Origin of Criminal Law|author=William Weldon Billson}}

"The Origin of Criminal Law" by William Weldon Billson in Popular Science Monthly, 16 (February 1880).

{{autolink|1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Bligh, William}}

"Bligh, William," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911).

{{autolink|Catholic Encyclopedia (1913)/The Bollandists}}

"The Bollandists," in Catholic Encyclopedia, (ed.) by Charles G. Herbermann and others, New York: The Encyclopaedia Press (1913).

{{autolink|CIA World Fact Book, 2004/Brazil}}

"Brazil," in the CIA World Fact Book, 2004.

See also edit