Template:Citation Style documentation/date


 * date: Date of source being referenced. Can be full date (day, month, and year) or partial date (month and year, season and year, or year). Use same format as other publication dates in the citations. Required when year is used to disambiguate links to multiple-work citations by the same author in the same year.$[more]$ Do not wikilink. Displays after the authors and is enclosed in parentheses. If there is no author, then displays after publisher.
 * For approximate year, precede with " ", like this: c. 1900.


 * For no date, or "undated", add as n.d.

Other value for df are:
 * year: Year of source being referenced. Use of date is recommended unless all of the following conditions are met:
 * The template uses harv, or the template is, or cs2
 * The date format is YYYY-MM-DD.
 * The citation requires a  disambiguator.
 * orig-year: Original publication year; displays after the date or year. For clarity, please supply specifics. For example: First published 1859 or Composed 1904. Alias: origyear
 * df: date format; sets rendered dates to the specified format; does not support date ranges or seasonal dates.
 * MEpedia may override your setting in Module code, which sets the value to the MEpedia standard of, e.g., Jan 20, 2009.
 * – set publication dates to day month year format; access- and archive-dates are not modified;
 * – as above for month day, year format
 * – as above for year initial numeric format YYYY-MM-DD
 * – set publication, access-, and archive-dates to day month year format;
 * – as above for month day, year format, the MEpedia default, e.g., Jan 20, 2009
 * – as above for year initial numeric format YYYY-MM-DD