Editing Help:Citation Style 1 (section)

====Auto-formatting citation template dates====
{{Use dmy dates|date={{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTYEAR}}|cs1-dates=y}}
[[Help:Citation Style 1|Citation Style 1]] and [[Help:Citation Style 2|2]] templates automatically render dates ({{para|date}}, {{para|access-date}}, {{para|archive-date}}, etc.) in the style specified by the article's {{tlx|use dmy dates}} or {{tlx|use mdy dates}} template. Editors may also choose how CS1/CS2 templates render dates by the use of {{para|cs1-dates|&lt;{{var|keyword}}>}} in the article's {{tld|use xxx dates}} template.<section begin="auto_date_format_table" />
{| class="wikitable"
|+Acceptable <code>{{pipe}}cs1-dates=</code> keywords
!scope="col"| Keyword
!scope="col"| Definition
|-
!scope="row"| <code>l</code>
|rowspan="2"| long-form publication and access- / archive-dates;<br />this is the default case when {{para|cs1-dates|plain=yes}} is omitted or empty
|-
!scope="row"| <code>ll</code>
|-
!scope="row"| <code>ls</code>
| long-form publication dates; abbreviated access- / archive-dates
|-
!scope="row"| <code>ly</code>
| long-form publication dates; year-initial numeric access- / archive-dates (ymd)
|-
!scope="row"| <code>s</code>
|rowspan="2"| abbreviated publication and access- / archive-dates
|-
!scope="row"| <code>ss</code>
|-
!scope="row"| <code>sy</code>
| abbreviated publication dates; year-initial numeric access- / archive-dates (ymd)
|-
!scope="row"| <code>y</code>
|rowspan="2"| year-initial numeric publication, access- and archive-dates (ymd);<br />cs1|2 cannot reformat Month YYYY, Season YYYY, date-ranges of any form, or [[Julian calendar]] dates into ymd format
|-
!scope="row"| <code>yy</code>
|}<section end="auto_date_format_table" />
Example: to have the CS1/CS2 templates in an article render their publication dates in the long form (fully spelled-out month names) with access-/archive-dates rendered in short form (abbreviated month names), write:
:{{tlx|use dmy dates|date{{=}}{{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTYEAR}}|cs1-dates{{=}}ls}}

This documentation page has <code><nowiki>{</nowiki>{use dmy dates|date={{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTYEAR}}|cs1-dates=y}}</code> at the top of this section so this cs1 template will render with ymd dates:
:<code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>cite web |title=Example Webpage |date=31 October 2017 |website=Example |url=https://example.com/ |access-date=Dec 5, 2017}}</code>
::{{cite web |title=Example Webpage |date=31 October 2017 |website=Example |url=https://example.com/ |access-date=Dec 5, 2017}}

This global setting may be overridden in individual CS1/CS2 templates by use of {{para|df}}; abbreviated date forms are not supported by {{para|df}}.

{{lang|la|Nota bene}}: CS1/CS2 auto-date formatting does not apply when previewing an article section that does not contain a {{tld|use xxx dates}} template.