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Usage
This template is a notice for templates that may be used in citation templates. By default, it indicates the template is safe for use as shown above.
To indicate a template that should not be used in a citation template:
{{COinS safe|n}}
| Notice | 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 COinS in Wikipedia. |
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|addtext=— additional text shown after the main message
When the template is set to not safe, the page is placed into Category:Templates not safe for use in citation templates.
Issue
Citation templates such as Citation Style 1 and Citation Style 2 generate COinS metadata. If a template is used in a citation template field, then it may inject HTML into the metadata.
Compare the rendered HTML for {{cite book}} with |author= using no template and using {{smallcaps}}.
The author metadata is in the Template:Code field. In this case, it is percent-encoded and is rendered as <span class="smallcaps" style="font-variant:small-caps;">Sam Drucker</span>
Reference management software will interpret the entire span as the author name.
