Template:Cite ngall/doc

Usage

This template creates a {{cite book}} citation to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Lists of Lights, including publication title, page, and year, plus a reference to the URL on the NGA web site that currently has the PDF of the seven publications (Pubs 110-116). Its use provides a standard citation for the Publications as well as making it easy to modify all citations globally if the NGA changes its web site organization, as happened with the US Coast Guard Light Lists in July, 2010.

Parameters

The template may be used in the form

{{Cite ngall|110|2009|123}}

which will result in

List of Lights, Pub. 110: Greenland, The East Coasts of North and South America (Excluding Continental U.S.A. Except the East Coast of Florida) and the West Indies (PDF). List of Lights. United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. 2009. p. 123.

The first parameter is always unnamed and must be a zero or a number from 110 to 116, corresponding to the seven volumes of the NGA Light List. Calling for Publication zero yields a generic reference which ignores any page given. The second parameter is the year, and the third is the page number. Either or both of the year and the page may be omitted, like this

{{cite ngall|110|2009|}}
or
{{cite ngall|110||123}}
(note the blank || where the year would go)

It may also be used with named parameters:

{{cite ngall
|110
|year = 2009
|page = 123
}}

or in compact form

{{cite ngall|110|year = 2009|page = 123}}

Examples:

1. {{Cite ngall|111|2010|456}} The usual form:
   List of Lights, Pub. 111: The West Coasts of North and South America (Excluding Continental U.S.A. and Hawaii), Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, and the Islands of the North and South Pacific Oceans (PDF). List of Lights. United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. 2010. p. 456.
2. {{Cite ngall|112|year=2010|page=456}} With named parameters
   List of Lights, Pub. 112: Western Pacific and Indian Oceans Including the Persian Gulf and Red Sea (PDF). List of Lights. United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. 2010. p. 456.
3. {{Cite ngall|113|2009|}} Omitting the page number
   List of Lights, Pub. 113: The West Coasts of Europe and Africa, the Mediterranean Sea, Black Sea and Azovskoye More (Sea of Azov) (PDF). List of Lights. United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. 2009.
4. {{Cite ngall|114||123}} Omitting the year
   List of Lights, Pub. 114: British Isles, English Channel and North Sea (PDF). List of Lights. United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. p. 123.
5. {{Cite ngall|115||123}} Omitting the year
   List of Lights, Pub. 115: Norway, Iceland and Arctic Ocean (PDF). List of Lights. United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. p. 123.
6. {{Cite ngall|116||123}} Omitting the year
   List of Lights, Pub. 116: Baltic Sea with Kattegat, Belts and Sound and Gulf of Bothnia (PDF). List of Lights. United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. p. 123.
7. {{Cite ngall|0||}} Citing all volumes without a year
   Limits of List of Lights, Pubs. 110–116. United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.
8. {{Cite ngall|0|2009|}} All volumes with a year
   Limits of List of Lights, Pubs. 110–116. United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. 2009.
9. {{Cite ngall|0|2009|123}} The page number is ignored
   Limits of List of Lights, Pubs. 110–116. United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. 2009.