Template:WikiLeaks cable/doc

Purpose
Provides a uniform method of formatting references to United States diplomatic cables initially released by WikiLeaks. This template makes it simpler to update if the initially proposed format of those references is changed.

Usage
This template can be used in the following ways:

The parameter(s) have the following meaning(s):
 * id specifies the ID of the cable in the recommended format YYC*N* (without the hash symbol "#", since the hash is specific to services like Twitter) where:
 * YY are the last two digits of the year the cable was sent
 * C* is an upper case alphabetical string of the city or source of the cable
 * N* is a positive integer, with preceding zeroes removed, for additional identification.

A colon instead of a hash is output in order to conform with URI generic syntax.

Example full citation
Code:

Result:

Webcitation can be used for archiveurl and archivedate entries.

The "id" parameter works with, not with.