Template:R:American Heritage Dictionary/documentation

Usage

This template may be used in "References" and "Further reading" sections, and on talk pages, to cite the The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language website (https://www.ahdictionary.com, which uses the 2016 (5th) print edition), as well as the 1971 and 2000 (4th) print editions of the work.

Parameters

The template takes the following positional or named parameters:

• |1= or |entry= – the entry in the Dictionary to be cited. If this parameter is omitted, the template uses the name of the Wiktionary entry.
• |edition= – by default, the template links to the online (5th) edition of the Dictionary. To cite a print edition instead, use one of the following:
  • |edition=1971 – for the 1971 edition.
  • |edition=4th – for the 2000 (4th) edition.
• |2=, |page=, or |pages= – the page number(s) of a print edition of the Dictionary 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=110–111.
• |3=, |column=, or |columns= – the column number(s) of a print edition of the Dictionary 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.
• |4=, |text=, or |passage= – a passage quoted from the Dictionary.
• |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

• Wikitext: {{R:American Heritage Dictionary}} (assuming the template is used on the dictionary page).
• Result: “dictionary”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.

• Wikitext: {{R:American Heritage Dictionary|entry=Abyssinia|edition=1971|page=6}}
• Result: William Morris, editor (1969 (1971 printing)), “Abyssinia”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, New York, N.Y.: American Heritage Publishing Co., →OCLC, page 6.

• Wikitext: {{R:American Heritage Dictionary|entry=etymology|edition=4th}}
• Result: “etymology”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, →ISBN.

See also

• {{R:ine:AHD}} - The American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-European Roots
• {{R:AHD Idioms}} - The American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms