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You only have to specify the information that you wish to change from the default. Others will be filled in automatically. For example, if you wish to be a little more precise about the release year when citing "[[The Dead Planet]]", you would type the following:<pre>([[TV]]: {{User:Bongolium500/cite source|The Daleks (TV story)|namedep=The Dead Planet (1)|release year=1963}})</pre>This produces:
You only have to specify the information that you wish to change from the default. Others will be filled in automatically. For example, if you wish to be a little more precise about the release year when citing "[[The Dead Planet]]", you would type the following:<pre>([[TV]]: {{User:Bongolium500/cite source|The Daleks (TV story)|namedep=The Dead Planet (1)|release year=1963}})</pre>This produces:
: ([[TV]]: {{User:Bongolium500/cite source|The Daleks (TV story)|namedep=The Dead Planet (1)|release year=1963}})
: ([[TV]]: {{User:Bongolium500/cite source|The Daleks (TV story)|namedep=The Dead Planet (1)|release year=1963}})
If any of the values you wish to use for any of these bits of information contain a comma (","), you must specify the <tt>|separator=</tt> parameter with a different separator (such as ";") that then should be used when you need to specify multiple values for a bit of information, such as multiple writers.


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