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Usage
{{Infobox book
<!-- |italic title = (see above) -->
| name =
| image = <!-- include the file, px and alt: [[File:Example.jpg|200px|alt=Cover]] -->
| image_caption =
| author =
| title_orig =
| translator =
| illustrator =
| cover_artist =
| country =
| language =
| series =
| subject =
| genre =
| publisher =
| publisher2 =
| pub_date =
| english_pub_date =
| media_type =
| pages =
| awards =
| isbn =
| oclc =
| dewey =
| congress =
| preceded_by =
| followed_by =
}}
|
Parameters
Please spend some time at 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), include the file, px and alt:
[[File:Example.jpg|200px|alt=Cover]]– don't use|thumb|because this adds unnecessary extra frames - image_caption
- Image caption (should describe the edition used)
- author
- Author(s)
- title_orig
- Original title, if not in English
- 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
- (for non-fiction) See index term and library classification
- genre
- (for fiction) See literary genre
- publisher
- Publisher of main publication (prefer 1st edition)
- publisher2
- Compatibility parameter for particularly notable additional publishers
- pub_date
- Date published (1st edition)
- english_pub_date
- Date published in English (1st English edition), if originally published in another language
- media_type
- Print / On-line (then binding types etc., if relevant)
- pages
- Pages (prefer 1st edition)
- awards
- Awards(s) the book has won
- isbn
- Format: "ISBN 1234567890" (prefer 1st edition)
- 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 (do not use to connect separate books chronologically}
- followed_by
- Title of subsequent book in series or sequel (do not use to connect separate books chronologically)
Example
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{{Infobox Book
| name = Half of a Yellow Sun
| title_orig =
| translator =
| image = [[File:HalfYellowSun.JPG|200px]]
| image_caption = 1st edition cover
| author = [[Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie]]
| illustrator =
| cover_artist =
| country = [[Nigeria]]
| language = [[English literature|English]]
| series =
| genre = [[Novel]]
| publisher = [[Alfred A. Knopf]]
| pub_date = January 15, 2007
| media_type = Print ([[Hardback]])
| pages = 448 pp
| isbn = 9780007200283
| oclc= 78988623
}}