Template:Volume needed

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This template should not be used in citation templates such as Citation Style 1 and Citation Style 2, because it includes markup that will pollute the COinS metadata they produce; see Wikipedia:COinS.

Usage

The {{Volume needed}} template functions as an in-line request for the specific citation of a volume number, issue number, or both in a serial publication such as a journal, newspaper or comic book. Do not use this tag in order to label statements which you suspect to be false. Instead, use a dispute template such as {{Dubious}}, or move those statements to the talk page and ask for evidence.

By default, it asks for both volume and issue number.

This tag will categorize tagged articles into Category:Articles with unsourced statements but not this template itself.

This template is a self-reference and so is part of the Wikipedia project rather than the encyclopedic content.

Placement

Put the template directly after the associated </ref> tag.

Parameters

|date=June 2026 When the tag was added.
|issue=no or |iss=no or |i=no Used in the unusual case that an issue is specified but the volume is missing. Note that some publication do not use issue numbers, though this is uncommon other than for book series. Any value will work, e.g. |issue=false or |i=0. Result: ^{[volume needed]}
|volume=no or |vol=no or |v=no Used in the unusual case that a volume is specified but the issue is missing. Note that some publication do not have a volume number, though this is uncommon. Any value will work. Result: ^{[issue needed]}

Journal and news usage

(In this example it is essentially flagging the fact that volume, issue number and month of publication are all missing, by including them as empty parameters that need filling; i.e., this example assumes that the original editor's citation omitted all of this information.)

Some text here.<ref name="Smith 2009">{{Cite journal
|last=Smith
|first=Jane
|title=The Unbearable Beingness of Light
|journal=Proceedings of the XYZ
|issue=
|volume=
|year=2009
|pages=47–62
|location=[[New York City|New York]]
|publisher=Fnord Pubs
}}</ref>{{Volume needed|date=June 2026}}

...

{{Reflist}}

Produces:

Some text here.^[1]^{[volume and issue needed]}

...

↑ Smith, Jane (2009). "The Unbearable Beingness of Light". Proceedings of the XYZ. New York: Fnord Pubs: 47–62.

Comic book usage

Usage with {{Cite comic}} is the same as above, except the |c=y parameter and value must be added, so that flagged articles are categorized under Category:Comics articles needing issue citations instead of the more general Category:Articles with unsourced statements: {{volume needed|c=y|{{subst:DATE}}}}

Redirects

{{Issue needed}}