Dictionary of canadian biography online citation format

Usage

This template is a wrapper around {{cite encyclopedia}} it is intended to format a link to the online edition to the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online (DCB) so that it appears as a standard citation, while filling in many of the fields base on the fixed identification number and the volume.

Until the second half of 2014 the access to web pages of the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online was through identification numbers. The site no longer uses this method but instead locates the page under the name of the individual with the volume number.

So the article on Richard Willis Jameson is now located at https://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/jameson_richard_willis_12E.html How to use the legacy parameters is described below in the collapse box and access via that method is still supported by the DCB website (presumably to support legacy links).

New parameters:

In addition the parameters:

• volume=number or Roman numer