Citation Style 1 templates
((Cite arXiv))arXiv preprints
((Cite AV media))audio and visual media
((Cite AV media notes))AV media liner notes
((Cite bioRxiv))bioRxiv preprints
((Cite book))books and chapters
((Cite CiteSeerX))CiteSeerX papers
((Cite conference))conference papers
((cite document))short, stand-alone, offline documents
((Cite encyclopedia))edited collections
((Cite episode))radio or TV episodes
((Cite interview))interviews
((Cite journal))academic journals
((Cite magazine))magazines, periodicals
((Cite mailing list))public mailing lists
((Cite map))maps
((Cite medRxiv))medRxiv preprints
((Cite news))news articles
((Cite newsgroup))online newsgroups
((Cite podcast))podcasts
((Cite press release))press releases
((Cite report))reports
((Cite serial))audio or video serials
((Cite sign))signs, plaques
((Cite speech))speeches
((Cite SSRN))SSRN papers
((Cite tech report))technical reports
((Cite thesis))theses
((Cite web))web sources not covered by the above
See alsoSpecific-source templates
Citation Style 1 wrapper templates

This Citation Style 1 template is used to create citations for preprints at the arXiv. It links to the abstract at http://www.arxiv.org/abs/eprint.

Usage

To use the template, you need only specify the arxiv or eprint parameter. Once you save the page, Citation bot will detect the citation and complete it automatically.

Common parameters, horizontal format
((cite arXiv |last= |first= |author-link= |eprint= |title= |class= |date= ))

The template uses the style of ((cite journal)). Once a paper is accepted in a peer-reviewed journal, it is recommended to use one of those templates, as the peer-reviewed status of the article is important, while preserving the arXiv link in order to guarantee open access to the previous version of the article. To preserve the arXiv link, add e.g. |arxiv=gr-qc/0610068 or |arxiv=math.GT/0309136 or |arxiv=YYMM.NNNN (following the above examples) to the ((citation)) or ((cite journal)) templates.

Examples

Parameters

Deprecated

Deprecated CS1/CS2 parameters
Deprecated parameter Replace with Date
|authors= |lastn= / |firstn=, |authorn=, |vauthors= November 2023
Recently removed CS1/CS2 parameters
Removed parameter Replace with Date Note
|lay-date= (delete) August 2023
|lay-source= (delete)
|lay-url= (delete)
|transcripturl= |transcript-url= August 2023

Description

Authors

Date

"Wikipedia:Undated" redirects here. For undated signatures, see Template:Undated.

Shortened footnotes target full citations using the year specified in this parameter. A lowercase letter may be suffixed to the year to disambiguate ((sfn)) links to multiple works by the same author in the same year,[more] unless the date is formatted as YYYY-MM-DD. In the latter case, year or ref is required to disambiguate the link targets.
For approximate year, precede with "c. ", like this: |date=c. 1900.

For no date, or "undated", use |date=n.d.
The date of a Web page, PDF, etc. with no visible date can sometimes be established by searching the page source or document code for a created or updated date; a comment for editors such as date=2021-12-25<!--date from page source-->|orig-date=Original date 2011-01-01 can be added.
Automatic date formatting: Citation Style 1 and 2 templates, including this template, automatically render dates in all date parameters (such as |date=, |publication-date=, |access-date=, |archive-date=, etc.) except for |orig-date= in the style specified by the article's ((use dmy dates)) or ((use mdy dates)) template. See those templates' documentation for details.
  1. ^ Publication dates in references within an article should all have the same format. This may be a different format from that used for archive and access dates. See MOS:DATEUNIFY.

Title

(See also Help:Citation Style 1 § Titles and chapters.)

Titles containing certain characters will not display and link correctly unless those characters are encoded.
newline [ ] |
space &#91; &#93; ((!)) (preferred)
((bracket|text)) &#124; or ((pipe))see also Help:Table § Rendering the pipe
  • title-link: Title of existing Wikipedia article about the source named in title – do not use a web address; do not wikilink.

TemplateData

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

TemplateData for Cite arXiv/doc

Formats a citation to a paper with an arXiv id

Template parameters[Edit template data]

This template prefers inline formatting of parameters.

ParameterDescriptionTypeStatus
arXiv arxiv eprint

arXiv identifier without the "arXiv:" prefix; can include version number

Example
1612.00008v1
Stringrequired
arXiv classclass

arXiv classification, for post-2007 ids

Stringoptional
Versionversion

arXiv version

Stringdeprecated
Authorauthor author1

Complete name of the first author

Stringoptional
First namefirst first1 given given1

First name of first author

Stringsuggested
Last namelast last1 surname surname1

Last name of first author

Stringsuggested
Author 2's first namefirst2 given2

First name of second author

Stringoptional
Author 2's last namelast2 surname2

Last name of second author

Stringoptional
Author 2author2

Full name of second author

Stringoptional
Author's articleauthor-link author-link1 authorlink authorlink1 author1-link author1link.

Title of the Wikipedia article about the first author

Page nameoptional
Author 2's articleauthor-link2 authorlink2 author2-link author2link

Title of Wikipedia article about the second author

Page nameoptional
Authorsauthors

Full list of all authors

Stringoptional
Co-authorscoauthors

Names of co-authors

Stringdeprecated
Titletitle

Title of the paper cited

Stringsuggested
Translatortranslator translator1

Full name of first translator

Stringoptional
Translator's last nametranslator-last translator1-last translator-last1

Translator's last name

Stringoptional
Translator's first nametranslator-first translator1-first translator-first1

Translator's first name

Stringoptional
Translator's articletranslator-link translator-link1 translator1-link

Title of Wikipedia article of the (first) translator

Page nameoptional
Translator 2's First nametranslator-first2 translator2-first

Translator 2's First name

Stringoptional
Translator 2's last nametranslator-last2 translator2-last

Translator 2's last name

Stringoptional
Translator 2translator2

Full name of second translator

Stringoptional
Translator 2's articletranslator-link2 translator2-link

Title of WIkipedia article about second translator

Page nameoptional
collaborationcollaboration

Name of a group of authors, in addition to the ones listed in the Author parameters

Stringoptional
Datedate

Date of the source being cited. Use n.d. for no date, and c. for inexact dated

Stringoptional
Original publication dateorig-date orig-year

Original publication date, which displays after the main date. Be specific

Example
First published 1859
Stringoptional
Date format for publication datesdf

Either ymd (Year-Month-Day), dmy (Day-Month-Year), or mdy (Month-Day-Year) add -all at end to also affect access and archive dates

Example
dmy
Stringoptional
Foreign-script titlescript-title

Title of work in original non-latin script. May be prefixed with language code and a colon

Example
ja:東京タワー
Stringoptional
Translated titletrans-title

English translation of title

Stringoptional
Article about titletitle-link

Wikipedia article that the title is linked to

Page nameoptional
Language(s)language

Language(s) the source is written in. Separate by commas, and do not include 'and'

Stringoptional