Template:Fcite web/doc

The Template:Fcite web, Template:Fcite book and other templates in the Fcite group are fast-cite alternatives to {&#123;cite web}} and {&#123;cite book}} for use in large articles. To allow extreme speed, only the basic parameter names are supported, such as "coauthors=" rather than "last4=" or "last5=" (etc.). For rare parameters, the original cite templates can still be used, and mixed within an article. To view parameter names, see: Template:Citation/doc.

Template:Fcite book defaults to show italicized {title}, or if {book} or {work} are specified, then to quote "{title}" such as a short-story title, after showing the {book}/{work} name italicized. By comparison, {&#123;Fcite web}} will always quote "{title}" and put any {book}/{work} name after {title}. Hence, there are 2 differences: title is italicized, or title as second/quoted, whereas Fcite web (or Fcite journal) will put the quoted "{title}" before the book/work name.

In articles which contain more than 300 formatted references, the speed of formatting a large article, during 2009, reached 30–60 seconds for logged-in users, so the Fcite templates can be used to run 5x faster (6–12 seconds) when reformatting an article. Many large articles experienced similar long delays during 2009–2012, due to using numerous large templates.

Format
The operation is very similar to {&#123;cite}} and related templates.


 * Markup: {&#123;fcite|title=Origin of fish | publisher=Google |year=1999
 * | date=August 1999 | url=http://www.google.com | accessdate=1 June 2009}}
 * Result:

Comparison to Cite_web
The operation is very similar to cite and related templates.

Using fcite web:

Related templates
The various templates within the Fcite group include:
 * Template:Fcite web – for webpages, with "url=" link
 * Template:Fcite book – for books, with optional "url=" link
 * Template:Fcite news – for news articles, with "url=" link
 * Template:Fcite journal – for journal articles, with issue/format
 * Template:Fcitation – puts a Harvard-ref anchor, linked from {&#123;Harvnb}}