Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press.  Unknown parameter |HIDE_PARAMETER= ignored (help) (subscription or UK public library membership required)

{{ODNBweb|id=ODNB article number|title=ODNB article name}}

For example {{ODNBweb|id=29986|title=Worsley, Sir Richard}} displays:

"Worsley, Sir Richard". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/29986.  (subscription or UK public library membership required)
List of supported parameters (for a fuller explanation see {{cite encyclopedia}})

These parameters are pre-set but can be overridden with other values

Author names:

  • first=name; last=name; authorlink=article name
  • first2=name; last2=name; authorlink2=article name — Useful for the name of the reviewer
  • first3=name; last3=name; — there may occasionally be three authors. Currently this template only handles up to three
  • author=name
  • author2=name
  • author3=name

Article titles and identification:

  • title=name of the ODNB article
  • id=number — This is non standard and consists of the "article number" (the last set of digits of a ODNB doi or biography url)
  • doi=doi—Can be used instead of the parameter id=
  • url=url of the ODNB article — Can be used with or in place of the parameter id=, but is also essential for ODNB none biography articles such as "Themes" which do not conform the the usual ODNB url biography format and do not have a doi See for example:

Years and dates

  • origyear=origninal year — The initial year of publication is usually 2004 if there has one or more updates the current year parameter my be different.
  • year=year of ODNB article publication
  • date=date of ODNB article publication — If date and year parameters are both set then date parameter value is displayed but year parameter value is used by templates such as {{harvnb}}
  • accessdate=month year — not needed as the ODNB has both date of article modification, a builtin archive and a doi structure.