Template:ISBN missing/doc

ISBN missing is an inline cleanup template for flagging a reference that is missing the International Standard Book Number (ISBN) of the source document.

Usage

 * With a reference formatted via a Citation Style 1 template (,, , etc.):
 * Place outside the citation template


 * With a free-form reference, just append to the end of the citation.

How to fix the problem flagged by this template
 Do not remove the template without fixing the problem in one of the following ways: 


 * Determine the ISBN, add it to the reference, then remove the template
 * For a reference formatted via a Citation Style 1 template, use its ISBN parameter:
 * X-XXXX-XXXX-X
 * For a free-form reference:
 * Add the ISBN as appropriate to the citation, preferably using the ISBN template, or...
 * Better yet, convert the citation to a Citation Style 1 template.


 * If you are certain that the source document does not have an ISBN, add a No ISBN template to the reference, then remove the template
 * For a reference formatted via a Citation Style 1 template:
 * 1. Use its ISBN parameter to state explicitly that the ISBN does not exist:
 * isbn (you must use HTML  comment tags to hide the message from the citation processing software)
 * 2. Place outside the citation template
 * For free-form reference, just add to the end of the citation.

''' If you remove the template without fixing the problem in one of the above ways, someone else will come along later and flag the reference with  again! '''

TemplateData
{	"params": { "date": { "label": "Month and year", "autovalue": " ", "required": true }	},	"format": "inline" }