Template:Infobox book/doc

This template is used to present a consistently-formatted table for use in articles about books.

Usage


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:
 * image_size: Default size is 200px. Use a number to change image size
 * border: Inserting  here 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.  ); in this case add the border in image (e.g.  )
 * 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, encylopedias, 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)
 * 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)
 * 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 ; will be italicised by template code (do not use to connect separate books chronologically)
 * preceded_by_quotation_marks: Title of prior work 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 ; will be italicised by template code (do not use to connect separate books chronologically)
 * followed_by_quotation_marks: Title of subsequent work 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 accesible 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


Template data
{	"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)" }	} }

Translated books
About how to handle translated books, see the Translated books case study.

Tracking
Instances without images cause the article to be added to Category:Books with missing cover.