This template is safe for use in citation templates that produce COinS metadata; see COinS. If HTML or other markup is added, then the template must be reevaluated.
This template is safe for use in citation templates that produce COinS metadata; see COinS. If HTML or other markup is added, then the template must be reevaluated.
This template should not be used in citation templates such as Citation Style 1 and Citation Style 2, because it includes markup that will pollute the COinS metadata they produce; see COinS.
This template is safe for use in citation templates that produce COinS metadata; see COinS. If HTML or other markup is added, then the template must be reevaluated. Here is the extra info.
This template should not be used in citation templates such as Citation Style 1 and Citation Style 2, because it includes markup that will pollute the COinS metadata they produce; see COinS. Here is the extra info.
Explain COinS issues
Citation templates such as Citation Style 1 and Citation Style 2 generate COinS metadata. If a template is used in a citation template field, then it may inject HTML into the metadata.
Compare the rendered HTML for {{cite book}} with |author= using no template and using {{smallcaps}}.
Markup
Renders as
{{cite book |author=Sam Drucker |title=Title}}
Sam Drucker. Title.
'"`UNIQ--templatestyles-00000006-QINU`"'<cite id="CITEREFSam_Drucker" class="citation book cs1">Sam Drucker. ''Title''.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Title&rft.au=Sam+Drucker&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fpool.calebcooper.ie%3ATemplate%3ACOinS+safe" class="Z3988"></span>
{{cite book |author={{smallcaps|Sam Drucker}} |title=Title}}
Sam Drucker. Title. {{cite book}}: templatestyles stripmarker in |author= at position 1 (help)
'"`UNIQ--templatestyles-0000000E-QINU`"'<cite id="CITEREFSam_Drucker" class="citation book cs1">'"`UNIQ--templatestyles-0000000D-QINU`"'<span class="smallcaps">Sam Drucker</span>. ''Title''.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Title&rft.au=%7F%27%22%60UNIQ--templatestyles-0000000D-QINU%60%22%27%7F%3Cspan+class%3D%22smallcaps%22%3ESam+Drucker%3C%2Fspan%3E&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fpool.calebcooper.ie%3ATemplate%3ACOinS+safe" class="Z3988"></span> <span class="cs1-visible-error citation-comment"><code class="cs1-code">{{[[Template:cite book|cite book]]}}</code>: </span><span class="cs1-visible-error citation-comment">templatestyles stripmarker in <code class="cs1-code">|author=</code> at position 1 ([[Help:CS1 errors#invisible_char|help]])</span>[[Category:CS1 errors: invisible characters]]
The author metadata is in the rft.aulast field. In this case, it is percent-encoded and is rendered as <span class="smallcaps" style="font-variant:small-caps;">Sam Drucker</span>
Reference management software will interpret the entire span as the author name.
