Template:Infobox book/doc
 | This is a documentation subpage for Template:Infobox book. It contains usage information, categories and other content that is not part of the original template page. |
 | This infobox automatically italicizes the article title. If this is not required, add |italic title=no to the list of parameters. If this is required and the title is not being italicized, you can try |italic title=force |
This template is used to present a consistently-formatted table for use in articles about books.
Contents
Usage
| name | |
|---|---|
| Author | author |
| Original title | [title_orig] error: {{lang}}: text has italic markup (help) |
| Working title | title_working |
| Translator | translator |
| Illustrator | illustrator |
| Cover artist | cover_artist |
| Country | country |
| Language | language |
| Series | series |
| Subject | subject |
| Genre | genre |
| Published | published |
| Media type | media_type |
| Pages | pages |
| Awards | awards |
| ISBN | isbn |
| OCLC | oclc |
| Dewey Decimal | dewey |
| LC Class | congress |
| Preceded by | preceded_by |
| Followed by | followed_by |
Original text | title_orig at Interlingua Wikisource |
| Translation | name at Wikisource |
{{Infobox book
<!-- |italic title = (see above) -->
| name =
| image =
| caption =
| alt =
| author =
| title_orig =
| orig_lang_code =
| title_working =
| translator =
| illustrator =
| cover_artist =
| country =
| language =
| series =
| subject =
| genre =
| published =
| media_type =
| pages =
| awards =
| isbn =
| oclc =
| dewey =
| congress =
| preceded_by =
| followed_by =
| wikisource =
}}
Parameters
Please see WikiProject Books and/or WikiProject Novels for standards on presenting names and other data.
- Parameters can be safely left blank. Note that you may include an image with no caption, but a caption will not be shown if there is no image.
- Wikilinks can be used in any of the infobox fields.
- name
- Book name. If parameter is left blank, name will be inherited from page title.
- image
- Image (prefer 1st edition – where permitted), use bare filename:
Example.jpg - image_width
- Default size is 200px. Use a number to change image size
- border
- Inserting
yeshere will result in a 1px grey border around the image, useful for instances where the image and the background will blend together (such as a book cover with a white background). If no border is necessary, this parameter should not be used. Note: does not apply if|image=uses the full image syntax (e.g.[[Image:Example.jpg]]); in this case add the border in|image=(e.g.[[Image:Example.jpg|border=yes]]) - caption
- Image caption (should describe the edition used)
- alt
- Image alternate text
- editor/editors
- Editor(s) only when they are the primary contributor, e.g. dictionaries, encyclopedias, anthologies
- author/authors
- Author(s)
- title_orig
- Original title, if not in English
- orig_lang_code
- ISO code of original language, required if using
|title_orig=,|native_wikisource=or|native_external_url= - working_title
- Working title, when different from published title
- translator
- Translator(s), if original not in English
- illustrator
- Illustrator (where used throughout and a major feature)
- cover_artist
- Cover artist
- country
- Country of original publication
- language
- Language of original book
- series
- Series (if any)
- subject/subjects
- (for non-fiction) See index term and library classification
- genre/genres
- (for fiction) See literary genre
- published
- Using the following format: year (publisher) (language, when originally written in a foreign language); use {{plainlist}} when there is more than one notable edition
- publisher/publisher2/pub_date/english_pub_date
- Deprecated (use published instead)
- media_type
- Print / On-line (then binding types etc., if relevant)
- pages
- Pages (prefer 1st edition, specify edition as needed)
- award/awards
- Awards(s) the book has won
- isbn
- (prefer ISBN of 1st edition). Format: "ISBN 1-234-56789-0" (10-digit) or "ISBN 123-4-567-89012-3" (13-digit). If the book was published before the use of ISBN, do not include this parameter.
- oclc
- OCLC number (prefer 1st edition), use when book has no ISBN
- dewey
- Dewey Decimal System classification
- congress
- Library of Congress Classification (not to be confused with Library of Congress Control Number)
- preceded_by
- Title of prior book in series; will be italicised by template code (do not use to connect separate books chronologically)
- preceded_by_quotation_marks
- Title of prior work in series if a minor work; will be surrounded with quotation marks by template code (do not use to connect separate books chronologically)
- followed_by
- Title of subsequent book in series or sequel; will be italicised by template code (do not use to connect separate books chronologically)
- followed_by_quotation_marks
- Title of subsequent work in series or sequel if a minor work; will be surrounded with quotation marks by template code (do not use to connect separate books chronologically)
- native_wikisource
- Page name of original text at a foreign language Wikisource (if applicable); use
|orig_lang_code=to specify which Wikisource. Tracked in Category:Articles that link to foreign-language Wikisources - native_external_url
- URL to a site hosting the original text when in a foreign language, and in the public domain but not yet on Wikisource. Non-commercial, open and accessible sites should be used in preference, sites which rip the text from other sites should be avoided, and illegal content is never to be linked to
- native_external_host
- The name of the website linked to by
|native_external_url=, e.g. Project Gutenberg, Internet Archive. Should be wikilinked if possible - wikisource
- Title of work if in the public domain and hosted at English Wikisource:. Tracked in Category:Articles that link to Wikisource
- external_url
- URL to a site hosting the text in English (whether the original or a translation), when in the public domain but not yet on Wikisource. Non-commercial, open and accessible sites should be used in preference, sites which rip the text from other sites should be avoided, and illegal content is never to be linked to
- external_host
- The name of the website linked to by
|external_url=, e.g. Project Gutenberg, Internet Archive. Should be wikilinked if possible
Example
| Anne of Green Gables | |
|---|---|
 First page of Anne of Green Gables. | |
| Author | Lucy Maud Montgomery |
| Illustrator | M. A. and W. A. J. Claus |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Children's novel |
| Published | 1908 (L. C. Page & Co.) |
| Media type | Print (hardcover) |
| Pages | 429 pp (first edition) |
| ISBN | N/A |
| OCLC | 367111 |
| LC Class | PR6025.O45 A53 |
| Followed by | Anne of Avonlea |
| Text | Anne of Green Gables at Wikisource |
{{Infobox book
| name = Anne of Green Gables
| image = FirstPageGreenGables.gif
| caption = First page of ''Anne of Green Gables''.
| alt = Cover
| author = [[Lucy Maud Montgomery]]
| title_orig =
| working_title =
| translator =
| illustrator = M. A. and W. A. J. Claus
| cover_artist =
| country = United States
| language = English
| series =
| subject =
| genre = [[Children's literature|Children's novel]]
| published = 1908 ([[L. C. Page & Co.]])
| media_type = Print ([[hardcover]])
| pages = 429 pp ''(first edition)''
| awards =
| isbn = N/A
| oclc = 367111
| congress = PR6025.O45 A53
| preceded_by =
| followed_by = [[Anne of Avonlea]]
| wikisource = Anne of Green Gables
}}
Template data
TemplateData for Infobox book
<templatedata>{ "description": "Consistently-formatted table for presenting information about books", "params": { "name": { "label": "Name", "type": "string", "required": false, "description": "Book name.", "default": "Pagename" }, "author": { "label": "Author", "type": "string", "required": false, "description": "Author(s) of the book (should be link to their respective article if there is one)." }, "language": { "label": "Language", "type": "string", "required": false, "description": "Language of (original) book. Full language name (not a language code)." }, "country": { "label": "Country", "type": "string", "required": false, "description": "Country of (original) publication." }, "genre": { "label": "Genre", "type": "string", "required": false, "description": "" }, "published": { "label": "Published", "type": "number", "required": false, "description": "Using the following format: year (publisher) (language, when originally written in a foreign language)" }, "publisher": { "label": "Publisher", "type": "string", "deprecated": "Add the publisher to the Published field instead.", "description": "Name of publisher." }, "isbn": { "label": "ISBN", "type": "string", "description": "Format: \"ISBN 1-234-56789-0\" (prefer 1st edition)" } } }</templatedata>
Translated books
About how to handle translated books, see the Translated books case study.
COinS
This template produces COinS metadata; see COinS in Wikipedia for background information.
Tracking
Instances without images cause the article to be added to Category:Books with missing cover.
See also
