Template:R:Garner's

Bryan A[ndrew] Garner (2022) “R:Garner's”, in Garner’s Modern English Usage: The Authority on Grammar, Usage, and Style, 5th edition, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.

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The following documentation is located at Template:R:Garner's/documentation. ^[edit]

Useful links: subpage list • links • redirects • transclusions • errors (parser/module) • sandbox

Usage

This template may be used in the “References” section of an entry to provide a citation to Bryan A. Garner’s work Garner’s Modern English Usage (5 editions; see below). The template can be used to create a link to an online versions of the work at Google Books and the Internet Archive:

• 1st edition, 1998, A Dictionary of Modern American Usage.
• 2nd edition, 2003, Garner’s Modern American Usage.
• 3rd edition, 2009, Garner’s Modern American Usage.
• 4th edition, 2016, Garner’s Modern English Usage.
• 5th edition, 2022, Garner’s Modern English Usage: The Authority on Grammar, Usage, and Style.

Parameters

The template takes the following parameters:

• |edition= – the edition of Garner’s cited, from |edition=1st to |edition=5th. If this parameter is omitted, the template defaults to the latest (5th) edition.
• |1= or |entry= – the entry (headword or lemma) in Garner’s cited. If this parameter is omitted, the template uses the Wiktionary page name.
• |pos=, or |part of speech= – the part of speech of the entry (if it has one). By default, the template italicizes the value assigned to the parameter and adds a full stop (period) to the end. To turn off the default formatting for the purpose of specifying a different formatting using wikitext markup and templates, specify |noformat=1.
• |page= or |pages= – the page(s) of Garner’s on which the entry appears. When citing a range of pages, note the following:
  • Separate the first and last pages of the range with an en dash, like this: |pages=10–11.
  • You must also use |pageref= to specify the page number that the template should link to.
• |column= or |columns= – the column number(s) of Garner’s on which the entry appears.
• |passage= or |text= – a passage cited from the source.
• |footer= – a comment on the passage cited.
• |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.