Template:R:American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms
Appearance
Christine Ammer (1997–2013) “R:American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms”, in American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
- The following documentation is located at Template:R:American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms/documentation. [edit]
- Useful links: subpage list • links • redirects • transclusions • errors (parser/module) • sandbox
Usage
[edit]This template may be used in "References" and "Further reading" sections, and on talk pages, to cite editions of The American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms.
Parameters
[edit]The template takes the following positional or named parameters:
|1=
or|edition=
– the edition of the Dictionary to be cited.|edition=1
– for the first edition published 1997.|edition=student
– for the 2001 English language learner edition.|edition=2
– for the second edition published 2013.
|2=
or|entry=
– the entry in the Dictionary to be cited. If this parameter is omitted, the template uses the name of the Wiktionary entry.|3=
,|page=
, or|pages=
– the page number(s) on which the entry appears. Use|pages=
if indicating a range of pages, and separate the first and last pages of the range with an en dash, like this:|pages=10–11
.|4=
or|pageurl=
– a link to the (first) page on which the entry appears. Meant for the second edition which has two Google Books entries ([1],[2]) with some pages viewable. If the entry is on one of those pages, provide a link to it using this parameter.|5=
,|text=
, or|passage=
– a passage quoted from the Dictionary.|pageref=
- the manually specified page to link to, used when a page does have a normal number, such as those in the preface.|column=
or|columns=
– the column number(s) on which the entry appears. Use|columns=
if indicating a range of columns, and separate the first and last column numbers of the range with an en dash.|nodot=
– by default, the template adds a full stop (period) at the end of the citation. To suppress this punctuation, use|nodot=1
or|nodot=yes
.
Examples
[edit]- Wikitext:
{{R:American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms}}
(assuming the template is used on the act out page). - Result: Christine Ammer (1997–2013) “act out”, in American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
- Wikitext:
{{R:American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms|entry=act out|edition=student|page=3}}
- Result: Christine Ammer (2001) “act out”, in Linda Butler, Julia Penelope, editors, American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms for Students of English, Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, page 3.
- Wikitext:
{{R:American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms|entry=act out|edition=2|page=3|pageurl=https://www.google.com/books?id=l_LxuR1jMVgC&pg=PA3}}
- Result: Christine Ammer (2013) “act out”, in American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms, second edition, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 3.
See also
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- The standard American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language{{R:ine:AHD}}
- The American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-European Roots