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Constructing a general citation for the 1933 re-issue of the first edition of the OED

Now I am in a position to begin assembling the citation. Finally. So let's get to it, the data used will be from the title pages below.

The first terms of the Cite book template are last1 and first1 referring to the first and last names of the first author; and this is where the fun starts. The title page of the 1933 publication lists no authors, only editors (the OED was one of the earliest crowdsourced projects). Let's make a decision to respect their published titles so these terms can be left blank.

The next terms are author-link1 and author-mask1. Author-link provides a field with which to encode a link to the Wiki page of the author, and author-mask allows an individual author's name to be replaced with em-dashes. More blanks.

For books with multiple authors the subsequent last and first names are added as lastn, firstn, where n is the total number of authors. More blanks.

The fields display-authors and last-author-amp control how many authors are listed in the citation and whether an ampersand is placed between the penultimate and last author. Blanks.

All the translator related fields are not required. Blanks.

The first information to be used is the date of publication, 1933. There are several date-related fields in the template, but from the Cite book ref notes the field date should be used, the others (year & orig-year) can be left blank. This gives,

{{cite book |date=1933

The next set of fields (chapter, script-chapter, trans-chapter, chapter-url, chapter-format) refer to chapter citations and the OED is not a chapter book. Blank.

Now more information is required, as the next set of fields (editor1-last, editor1-first, editor1-link, editor1-mask, display-editors) are for data on the editors of the work. The names as listed in the 1933 re-issue are James A. H. Murray, Henry Bradley, W. A. Craigie, C. T. Onions, yielding,

{{cite book |date=1933 |editor1-last= Murray |editor1-first= James A. H. |editor2-last=Bradley | editor2-first=Henry |editor3-last=Craigie |editor3-first=W. A. |editor4-last=Onions |editor4-first=C. T.

It is possible to use the editor-linkn term to Wiki pages of the individual editors, which, unsurprisingly, are available for all of the editors. So adding this information gives,

{{cite book |date=1933 |editor1-last= Murray |editor1-first= James A. H. |editor-link1=James_Murray_(lexicographer) |editor2-last=Bradley | editor2-first=Henry |editor-link2=Henry_Bradley |editor3-last=Craigie |editor3-first=W. A. |editor-link3=William_Craigie |editor4-last=Onions |editor4-first=C. T. |editor-link4= Charles_Talbut_Onions

Next up is the title information (title, script-title, trans-title): the last two are for translated titles. The given title of the re-issue is 'The Oxford English Dictionary; being a corrected re-issue with an introduction, supplement and bibliography of A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles.' No wonder it got shortened.

{{cite book |date=1933 |editor1-last= Murray |editor1-first= James A. H. |editor-link1=James_Murray_(lexicographer) |editor2-last=Bradley | editor2-first=Henry |editor-link2=Henry_Bradley |editor3-last=Craigie |editor3-first=W. A. |editor-link3=William_Craigie |editor4-last=Onions |editor4-first=C. T. |editor-link4= Charles_Talbut_Onions |title= The Oxford English Dictionary; being a corrected re-issue with an introduction, supplement and bibliography of A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles

Although it is not included in the full parameter set (but is described in the description of the parameters) the term title-link= can be used to reference the relevant section of the Wikipedia OED article 'Completion of first edition and first supplement' for the thirteen volume re-issue. So now we have,

{{cite book |date=1933 |editor1-last= Murray |editor1-first= James A. H. |editor-link1=James_Murray_(lexicographer) |editor2-last=Bradley | editor2-first=Henry |editor-link2=Henry_Bradley |editor3-last=Craigie |editor3-first=W. A. |editor-link3=William_Craigie |editor4-last=Onions |editor4-first=C. T. |editor-link4= Charles_Talbut_Onions |title=The Oxford English Dictionary; being a corrected re-issue with an introduction, supplement and bibliography of A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles |title-link=Oxford_English_Dictionary#Completion_of_first_edition_and_first_supplement

Next come fields for web-links (url, dead-url, format), these could be filled in but I am not quite sure where the link would point to, as there is no single source open access web page. So I'll leave this blank.

The next set of fields (type, series, language, volume, issue, others, edition) relate to the format of the source of the citation. Type is obviously book (although perhaps dictionary could be used), but really this too obvious to include. The 1933 issue was not a series; well it was (see earlier post), but is not commonly referenced as such. It was published in English, which again is really too obvious to include. The volume attribute will differ depending on which volume of the dictionary is being referenced and will be left blank. The issue field is more for periodicals (eg newspapers, magazines, etc) and others is for non-editor or author contributors to the work. All blank.

The edition is the 1st

{{cite book |date=1933 |editor1-last= Murray |editor1-first= James A. H. |editor-link1=James_Murray_(lexicographer) |editor2-last=Bradley |editor2-first=Henry |editor-link2=Henry_Bradley |editor3-last=Craigie |editor3-first=W. A. |editor-link3=William_Craigie |editor4-last=Onions |editor4-first=C. T. |editor-link4= Charles_Talbut_Onions |title=The Oxford English Dictionary; being a corrected re-issue with an introduction, supplement and bibliography of A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles |title-link=Oxford_English_Dictionary#Completion_of_first_edition_and_first_supplement |edition=1st |

The next set of fields (location, publisher, publication-date) relate to the publisher, who was the Clarendon Press at Oxford.

{{cite book |date=1933 |editor1-last= Murray |editor1-first= James A. H. |editor-link1=James_Murray_(lexicographer) |editor2-last=Bradley |editor2-first=Henry |editor-link2=Henry_Bradley |editor3-last=Craigie |editor3-first=W. A. |editor-link3=William_Craigie |editor4-last=Onions |editor4-first=C. T. |editor-link4= Charles_Talbut_Onions |title=The Oxford English Dictionary; being a corrected re-issue with an introduction, supplement and bibliography of A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles |title-link=Oxford_English_Dictionary#Completion_of_first_edition_and_first_supplement |edition=1st |location=Oxford |publisher=Clarendon Press

Now we get into the nitty gritty of a series of resource identifiers (arxiv, asin, bibcode, doi, doi-broken-date, isbn, issn, jfm, jstor, lccn, mr, oclc, ol, osti, pmc, pmid, rfc, ssrn, zbl, id). Most of which don't apply; arxiv is an academic maths/physics collection; asin is an Amazon ID number; bibcode is for astronomical references; doi is for web addresses; jfm, mr and zbl are maths archives and jstor a general academic one; osti, pmc, pmid and rfc are scientific/technical collections; ssrn is a social sciences research collection; and finally id is a generic catch-all for resources that aren't specifically identified, for instance the British Library or Bodleian Library.

For the OED there are only a few terms which apply. The first two, isbn and issn, are predated by the 1st edition by some 34 years, but there is an ISBN for the 13 volume set. The field lccn is for the Library of Congress Control Number, oclc is for the WorldCat number, and ol is the Open Library number. Adding the information from these sources yields,

{{cite book |date=1933 |editor1-last= Murray |editor1-first= James A. H. |editor-link1=James_Murray_(lexicographer) |editor2-last=Bradley |editor2-first=Henry |editor-link2=Henry_Bradley |editor3-last=Craigie |editor3-first=W. A. |editor-link3=William_Craigie |editor4-last=Onions |editor4-first=C. T. |editor-link4= Charles_Talbut_Onions |title=The Oxford English Dictionary; being a corrected re-issue with an introduction, supplement and bibliography of A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles |title-link=Oxford_English_Dictionary#Completion_of_first_edition_and_first_supplement |edition=1st |location=Oxford |publisher=Clarendon Press |isbn=0198611013 |lccn=a33003399 |oclc=2748467 |ol=OL180268M

The next set of fields (archive-url, archive-date, access-date) are associated with web page sources. Blank.

The field via is for situations when access to the material from one publisher is sourced from another. Blank again.

The next set (registration, subscription) are fields for the accessibility of sources; lay-summary, lay-source, and lay-date are also not required; the term quote allows for the inclusion of relevant text. All blank.

The final set of fields is; name-list-format for specifying the format of the list of authors; mode to specify the punctuation used between fields of the reference; postscript to specify the form of punctuation used at the end of a reference; and ref for an anchor? All of these are display functions and I will leave them untouched.

So closing the reference gives,

{{cite book |date=1933 |editor1-last= Murray |editor1-first= James A. H. |editor-link1=James_Murray_(lexicographer) |editor2-last=Bradley |editor2-first=Henry |editor-link2=Henry_Bradley |editor3-last=Craigie |editor3-first=W. A. |editor-link3=William_Craigie |editor4-last=Onions |editor4-first=C. T. |editor-link4= Charles_Talbut_Onions |title=The Oxford English Dictionary; being a corrected re-issue with an introduction, supplement and bibliography of A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles |title-link=Oxford_English_Dictionary#Completion_of_first_edition_and_first_supplement |edition=1st |location=Oxford |publisher=Clarendon Press |isbn=0198611013 |lccn=a33003399 |oclc=2748467 |ol=OL180268M}}

which displays,


While going back and forth over the cite book template page I discovered that the parameter list shown is not complete. In the full listing, which is described under the TemplateData page, another useful field for the citation was found, agency. As The Philological Society was central to the creation of the dictionary it seems very reasonable to include a credit to them.

So, with this final addition, the Wikicode for the citation is,

{{cite book |date=1933 |editor1-last= Murray |editor1-first= James A. H. |editor-link1=James_Murray_(lexicographer) |editor2-last=Bradley |editor2-first=Henry |editor-link2=Henry_Bradley |editor3-last=Craigie |editor3-first=W. A. |editor-link3=William_Craigie |editor4-last=Onions |editor4-first=C. T. |editor-link4= Charles_Talbut_Onions |title=The Oxford English Dictionary; being a corrected re-issue with an introduction, supplement and bibliography of A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles |title-link=Oxford_English_Dictionary#Completion_of_first_edition_and_first_supplement |edition=1st |location=Oxford |publisher=Clarendon Press |isbn=0198611013 |lccn=a33003399 |oclc=2748467 |ol=OL180268M |agency=The Philological Society}}

which displays,


A brief version of the citation can be made by cutting back some of the fields,

{{cite book |date=1933 |editor1-last= Murray |editor1-first= James A. H. |editor-link1=James_Murray_(lexicographer) |editor2-last=Bradley |editor2-first=Henry |editor-link2=Henry_Bradley |editor3-last=Craigie |editor3-first=W. A. |editor-link3=William_Craigie |editor4-last=Onions |editor4-first=C. T. |editor-link4= Charles_Talbut_Onions |title=The Oxford English Dictionary |title-link=Oxford_English_Dictionary#Completion_of_first_edition_and_first_supplement |edition=1st |location=Oxford |publisher=Clarendon Press}}

giving,


So having constructed a full and a brief general citation for the 1933 re-issue (not quite a walk in the park), I will now go back and correct the issues discovered earlier.
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