Template:MacTutor/doc

This is a documentation subpage for Template:MacTutor.
It may contain usage information, categories and other content that is not part of the original template page.

{{MacTutor|id=Kepler|title=Johannes Kepler}} yields

O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Johannes Kepler", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews.

title defaults to the name of the Wikipedia article, so {{MacTutor|id=Newton}} yields

O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "MacTutor/doc", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews.

date date of the article. For example, {{MacTutor|id=Luke|title=Yudell Luke|date=October 1998}} yields

O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F. (October 1998), "Yudell Luke", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews.

class can be used to indicate other non-biography pages in MacTutor, so {{MacTutor|class=HistTopics|id=Topology_in_mathematics|title=A history of Topology}} yields

O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "A History of Topology", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews.

last, first,...,last4, first4 parameters can be used to indicate up to four authors different from the default ones, so {{MacTutor|first=Umberto|last=Lucia|id=Morera|title=Giacinto Morera|date= March 2006}} yields

Lucia, Umberto (March 2006), "Giacinto Morera", in O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F. (eds.), MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews.

class can also be used jointly with last and first to indicate other non-biography pages in MacTutor, so {{MacTutor|first=Umberto|last=Lucia|class=Extras|id=Morera_Publications|title=Publications of Giacinto Morera|date=March 2006}} yields

Lucia, Umberto (March 2006), "Publications of Giacinto Morera", in O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F. (eds.), MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews.

authorX-link can be used when author parameters lastX and firstX are given, in order to insert a link to the Wikipedia article on the specified author, so {{MacTutor|first=Vladimir G.|last=Maz'ya|author-link=Vladimir Maz'ya|first2=Tatyana O.|last2=Shaposhnikova|author2-link=Tatyana Shaposhnikova|first3=Daniele|last3=Tampieri|id=Mikhlin|title=Solomon Grigoryevich Mikhlin|date=March 2011}} yields

Maz'ya, Vladimir G.; Shaposhnikova, Tatyana O.; Tampieri, Daniele (March 2011), "Solomon Grigoryevich Mikhlin", in O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F. (eds.), MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews.