Rowlett, Russ. "Lighthouses of". The Lighthouse Directory. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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This template creates a {{cite web}} citation to Russ Rowlett's The Lighthouse Directory.
There is one mandatory unnamed parameter, which is the case-sensitive page designation code. The code appears at the end of the page url.
For example in www.ibiblio.org/lighthouse/jpst.htm the code is jpst and the usage would be {{Cite rowlett|jpst}}
Optional parameters:
|date=|accessdate=|archive-url=|archive-date=|url-status=|link=no - the publisher (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) is rendered without a wikilink. This is useful when multiple citations to the directory are used to avoid overlinking.
If the code is unknown it will produce an error. For example {{cite rowlett|foo}} produces:
The solution is to add the code to the template. There are codes at the Rowlett website that has not yet been added to the template.
{{cite rowlett|isr}}{{cite rowlett|isr|date=July 26, 2009|accessdate=August 3, 2010}}
This template provides a simple Harvard style reference, using {{sfn|Rowlett}}or{{harvnb|Rowlett}}, as appropriate. However, year referencing is not supported at this time.
One can also specify the ref parameter to use other tags.
