This external link template is underused, compared to the number of links to the site it represents (check here). Please help convert those links to make use of this template, for ease of tracking, and ease of interoperability with Wikidata.
Use this template to add citations to pages on the web site catalogueoflife.org.
The Catalogue of Life website was updated in December, 2020 to use new style IDs and a new infrastructure (see new infrastructure). This template handles references using the new IDs and infrastructure using named parameters (|id=, |title=, etc), while also handling legacy uses with the old-style IDs with positional parameters. New citations should use named parameters.
Use with new Catalogue of Life website
Syntax and parameters
((Catalogue of Life|id=|title=|option=|access-date=25 August 2024))
Parameters
id – new-style Catalogue of Life identifier
title – title for citation of Catalogue of Life page
option – type of Catalogue of Life page being cited
|option=taxon – link to taxon page (default)
|option=browse – link to hierarchical tree view opened at target taxon
access-date – date Catalogue of Life was consulted
The template is compatible with CS1/CS2 citations and can use any other parameters used by ((cite web)), e.g. |mode= to select CS1 or CS2 citation style or |ref= to set an anchor when using shortened footnotes.
Samples
((Catalogue of Life | id=4JQ8 |access-date=1 January 2021))
((Catalogue of Life | id=4JQ8 |title=''Felis'' |access-date=1 January 2021))
((Catalogue of Life | id=4JQ8 |option=browse |title=''Felis'' |access-date=1 January 2021))
((Catalogue of Life | id=6HR5M |access-date=1 January 2021))
((Catalogue of Life | id=6HR5M |option=taxon |title=''Felis bieti'' Milne-Edwards, 1892 |access-date=1 January 2021))
((Catalogue of Life | id=6HR5M |option=browse |title=''Felis bieti'' Milne-Edwards, 1892 |access-date=1 January 2021 |mode=cs2))
Using archived versions of COL database (with old-style ID)
Catalogue of Life provides access to older versions of the database. These use the old-style ID. To cite these older versions use the named parameters described above and add |version=YEAR to indicate the database version (defaults to 2019).
Samples
((Catalogue of Life | id=cacdd06fea1d51b05f753c0b95bb0717 |version=2016 |option=taxon |title=''Pohlia australis'' A. J. Shaw & Fife, 1985 |access-date=1 January 2021))
((Catalogue of Life | id=cacdd06fea1d51b05f753c0b95bb0717 |version=2016 |option=browse |title=''Pohlia australis'' A. J. Shaw & Fife, 1985 |access-date=1 January 2021))
((Catalogue of Life | id=f52a90a4edaa25c46b28a03674bd3f40 |option=taxon |title=''Felis bieti'' Milne-Edwards, 1892 |access-date=1 January 2021))
((Catalogue of Life | id=f52a90a4edaa25c46b28a03674bd3f40 |option=browse |title=''Felis bieti'' Milne-Edwards, 1892 |access-date=1 January 2021))
Before the Catalogue of Life website update in December, 2020, this template used positional parameters to cite Catalogue of Life. The template has been modified to create links to the new website infrastructure to approximate the previous usage.