Editing Help:Citation Style 1 (section)

===Authors===
You can add authors to a citation by placing their first and last name into the template's parameters. To add a single author, use {{para|last}} and {{para|first}}. If a cited source has multiple authors, use {{para|last2}} and {{para|first2}}, {{para|last3}} and {{para|first3}}, etc.<ref name="NB_Prefix">The number of authors that can be listed in the citation and displayed when published is unlimited.</ref> For symmetry with the other numbered parameters, {{para|last1}} and {{para|first1}} are available as well, as shown in the following example:

* <code><nowiki>{{cite book |last1=Hawking |first1=Stephen |last2=Hawking |first2=Lucy |title=George's Secret Key to the Universe}}</nowiki></code>
* {{cite book |last1=Hawking |first1=Stephen |last2=Hawking |first2=Lucy |title=George's Secret Key to the Universe |ref=none}}

In situations where "first" and "last" do not fit the authorship of the source you can use {{para|author}} and {{para|author{{var|n}}}}.<ref>This includes organizational authors or authors from cultures where a "last" name does not correspond to a [[surname]]. {{para|author}} should never hold the name of more than one author.</ref> An editor may be cited using separate parameters for the editor's last and first name. A single or first editor would use {{para|editor-last}} and {{para|editor-first}}; subsequent editors would use {{para|editor2-last}} and {{para|editor2-first}}, {{para|editor3-last}} and {{para|editor3-first}}, etc.<ref name="NB_Prefix"/> Similar to the {{para|author}} parameter, you can cite editors using {{para|editor}} and {{para|editor{{var|n}}}}. Both author and editor parameters can be used in a citation to a source that has multiple sections by different authors.

By default, the templates will use the author parameters to create link anchors for [[H:SFN|shortened footnotes]]. If an author parameter is not used, the template will render the editor in the author location and use the editors for [[H:SFN|shortened footnotes]]. If neither author nor editor parameters are used, the template will not automatically create an anchor for shortened footnotes.

If the cited source does not credit an author, as is common with newswire reports, press releases or company websites use: {{para|author|<nowiki><!--Not stated--></nowiki>}}<ref>This HTML comment alerts fact-checking and citation-fixing editors, and potentially bots, that the cited source did not name an author—the author was not overlooked. Without this entry editors and bots would waste time researching cited sources for a non-existent author credit.</ref>

{| class="wikitable"
|+
!{{diagonal split header|Source|Citation}}
!CS1 markup
!CS1 output
!Short citation
|-
!Author and editor, using last names
|<syntaxhighlight inline="" lang="wikitext">{{cite book |title=Title |chapter=Chapter |last=Last |first=First |editor-first=Editor-First |editor-last=Editor-Last |date=1999}}</syntaxhighlight>
|{{cite book |title=Title |chapter=Chapter |last=((Last)) |first=((First)) |editor-first=((Editor-First)) |editor-last=((Editor-Last)) |date=1999}}
|{{harvnb|Last|1999}}
|-
!Author and editor
|<syntaxhighlight inline="" lang="wikitext">{{cite book |title=Title |chapter=Chapter |author=Author |editor=Editor |date=1999}}</syntaxhighlight>
|{{cite book |title=Title |chapter=Chapter |author=((Author)) |editor=((Editor)) |date=1999}}
|{{harvnb|Author|1999}}
|-
!Author only
|<syntaxhighlight inline="" lang="wikitext">{{cite book |title=Title |author=Author |date=1998}}</syntaxhighlight>
|{{cite book |title=Title |author=((Author)) |date=1998}}
|{{harvnb|Author|1998}}
|-
!Editor but no author
|<syntaxhighlight inline="" lang="wikitext">{{cite book |title=Title |editor=Editor |date=1999}}</syntaxhighlight>
|{{cite book |title=Title |editor=((Editor)) |date=1999}}
|{{harvnb|Editor|1999}}
|-
!Neither
|<syntaxhighlight inline="" lang="wikitext">{{cite book |title=Title |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=1999 |ref={{sfnref|''Title''|1999}}}}</syntaxhighlight>
|{{cite book |title=Title |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=1999 |ref={{sfnref|''Title''|1999}}}}
|{{harvnb|''Title''|1999}}
|}