- Automatic date formatting: Citation Style 1 and 2 templates, including this template, automatically render dates in all date parameters (such as
|date=
,|publication-date=
,|access-date=
,|archive-date=
, etc.) except for|orig-date=
in the style specified by the article's{{use dmy dates}}
or{{use mdy dates}}
template. See those templates' documentation for details.