This template adds an automatically generated short description.If the automatic short description is not desired, override it by adding {{Short description}} at the top of the article.
<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline style="display: none;" />|author= – name of author
<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline style="display: none;" />|title_orig= – if title has been translated, title in original language
<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline style="display: none;" />|translator= – name of translator, if applicable
<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline style="display: none;" />|illustrator= – name of illustrator, if applicable
<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline style="display: none;" />|country= – home country of author
<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline style="display: none;" />|language= – original language of story
<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline style="display: none;" />|series= – series the story is a part of, if applicable
<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline style="display: none;" />|genre= – genre the story falls into, see below
<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline style="display: none;" />|published_in= – what the story was first released in, (e.g. the name of the anthology, magazine, etc.)
<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline style="display: none;" />|publication_type= – how the story was first released, e.g. anthology, periodical, etc
<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline style="display: none;" />|publisher= – name of publisher responsible for first edition
<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline style="display: none;" />|media_type= – the media the story was first released in, e.g. hardback, paperback, magazine, newspaper, online
<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline style="display: none;" />|pub_date= – date of first release or publication
<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline style="display: none;" />|english_pub_date= – if applicable, date of first publication in English
<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline style="display: none;" />|preceded_by= – if applicable, the name of the work preceding the story in a series
<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline style="display: none;" />|followed_by= – if applicable, the name of the work following the story in a series
<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline style="display: none;" />|preceded_by_italics= – replaces <syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline style="display: none;" />|preceded_by= if the preceding story requires an italic title (e.g. a novel)
<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline style="display: none;" />|followed_by_italics= – replaces <syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline style="display: none;" />|followed_by= if the following story requires an italic title (e.g. a novel). if applicable, a link to the text on Wikisource
<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline style="display: none;" />|pages= – how many pages long the work is (prefer 1st edition; specify edition if otherwise)
<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline style="display: none;" />|award= – award the work has won (if multiple awards, use <syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline style="display: none;" />|awards= instead)
<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline style="display: none;" />|awards= – list of awards the work has won (if a single award, use <syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline style="display: none;" />|award= instead)
<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline style="display: none;" />|native_wikisource= – Title of work's page if hosted at a non-English Wikisource.
<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline style="display: none;" />|orig_lang_code= – Two digit language code to refer non-English wikisource. Drawn from ISO language codes. Required to make native_wikisource parameter to work.
For genre, see List of literary genres. There are older deprecated aliases for parameters pub_date, published_in and english_pub_date called release_date, released_in and english_release_date.
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