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Usage

The ((Volume needed)) template functions as an in-line request for the specific citation of a volume and/or issue number in a serial publication such as a journal, newspaper or comic book. Do not use this tag in order to label statements which you suspect to be false. Instead, use a dispute template such as ((Dubious)), or move those statements to the talk page and ask for evidence.

By default, it asks for both volume & issue number.

This tag will categorize tagged articles into Category:Articles with unsourced statements but not this template itself.

This template is a self-reference and so is part of the Wikipedia project rather than the encyclopedic content.

Parameters

|date=April 2024 When the tag was added.
|issue=no or |iss=no or |i=no Used in the unusual case that an issue is specified but the volume is missing. Note that some publication do not use issue numbers, though this is uncommon. Any value will work, e.g. |issue=false or |i=0. Result: ^{[volume needed]}
|volume=no or |vol=no or |v=no Used in the unusual case that a volume is specified but the issue is missing. Note that some publication do not have a volume number, though this is uncommon. Any value will work. Result: ^{[issue needed]}

Journal and news usage

(In this example it is essentially flagging the fact that volume, issue number and month of publication are all missing, by including them as empty parameters that need filling; i.e., this example assumes that the original editor's citation omitted all of this information. Because of peculiarities of the ((cite journal)) and ((cite news)) templates, ((volume needed)) should go in those templates' |issue= field rather than |volume=, or it will be boldfaced.


Some text here.<ref name="Smith 2009">((Cite journal

|last=Smith

|first=Jane

|title=The Unbearable Beingness of Light

|journal=Proceedings of the XYZ

|issue=((volume needed|date=April 2024))

|volume=

|year=2009

|pages=47–62

|location=[[New York City|New York]]

|publisher=Fnord Pubs

))</ref>



...



((Reflist))

Produces:

Some text here.^[1]

...

^ Smith, Jane (2009). "The Unbearable Beingness of Light". Proceedings of the XYZ (^{&#91, volume &amp, issue needed&#93,}). New York: Fnord Pubs: 47–62.

Comic book usage

Usage with ((Cite comic)) is the same as above, except ((volume needed)) must go in the |volume= field, or it will not be displayed, and the |c=y parameter & value must be added, so that flagged articles are categorized under Category:Comics articles needing issue citations instead of the more general Category:Articles with unsourced statements: ((volume needed|c=y|((subst:DATE))))

Redirects

((issue needed))

Wikipedia:Citing sources
((Citation needed)) for other source citation cleanup templates
((Page needed)) (similar to ((volume needed)), for missing page numbers)
((Season needed)) (similar, for missing TV season & episode number)
((Time needed)) (similar, for missing time references in audio-visual resources)

Inline cleanup tags

Attribution

Clarity

Miscellaneous

Neutrality

Precision

((By how much)) ((Definition)) ((Definition needed)) ((Example needed)) ((Example needed span)) ((Explain)) ((How)) ((How often)) ((Misquoted)) ((Quantify)) ((Specify)) ((Vague)) ((When)) ((Where)) ((Which)) ((Who else)) ((Why)) ((Year needed))
Excessive	((Overly detailed inline)) ((Duplication span)) ((Importance inline)) ((Relevance inline)) ((Undue weight inline)) ((Globalize inline))

Time-sensitivity

Verifiability

Dubious	((Contradictory inline)) ((Disputed inline)) ((Dubious)) ((Dubious span)) ((Inconsistent)) ((Needs independent confirmation)) ((Speculation inline))
Bare URLs	((Bare URL inline)) ((Bare URL non-HTML)) ((Bare URL AV media)) ((Bare URL PDF)) ((Bare URL image)) ((Bare URL DOC)) ((Bare URL plain text)) ((Bare URL spreadsheet))
Incomplete or broken citation	((Author incomplete)) ((Author missing)) ((Date missing)) ((Dead link)) ((Edition needed)) ((Episode needed)) ((Full citation needed)) ((Incomplete short citation)) ((ISBN missing)) ((Moved resource)) ((Page needed)) ((Place missing)) ((Publisher missing)) ((Season needed)) ((Time needed)) ((Title incomplete)) ((Title missing)) ((Volume needed)) ((Year missing))
Missing or problematic reference	((Additional citation needed)) ((Better source needed)) ((Better source needed example)) ((Check quotation)) ((Chronology citation needed)) ((Circular reference)) ((Citation needed)) ((Citation needed span)) ((Citation not found)) ((Close paraphrasing inline)) ((COI source)) ((Deprecated inline)) ((Excessive citations inline)) ((Failed verification)) ((Failed verification span)) ((Image reference needed)) ((Irrelevant citation)) ((Medical citation needed)) ((Medical citation needed span)) ((Nonspecific)) ((Not verified in body)) ((Obsolete source)) ((Page range too broad)) ((Primary source inline)) ((Promotional source)) ((Quote without source)) ((Request quotation)) ((Request quotation span)) ((Retracted)) ((Scientific citation needed)) ((Self-published inline)) ((Tertiary source inline)) ((Third-party inline)) ((Unreliable fringe source)) ((Unreliable medical source)) ((Unreliable source?)) ((Verify quote)) ((Verify source))

Wording

General advice

The above documentation is transcluded from Template:Volume needed/doc.
Editors can experiment in this template's sandbox and testcases pages.
Add categories to the /doc subpage. Subpages of this template.

Usage

Parameters

Journal and news usage

Comic book usage

Redirects

See also