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 * '''last''': Surname of author. Do not wikilink— use '''authorlink''' instead. Where the surname is usually written first (e.g. as in Chinese) or for corporate authors, simply use '''last''' to include the same format as the source.
 ** '''first''': Given or first names) of author, including title(s)— e.g. ''Firstname Middlename'' or ''Firstname M.'' or ''Dr. Firstname M., Sr.''. Do not wikilink— use '''authorlink''' instead.
-**OR: for multiple authors, use the '''first1''', '''last1'''  through '''first9''', '''last9''' for up to 9 authors. By default, if nine authors are defined, then only eight will show and et al. will show in place of the last author.
+**OR: for multiple authors, use the '''first1''', '''last1'''  through '''first9''', '''last9''' for up to 9 authors. By default, if nine authors are defined, then only eight will show and "et al." will show in place of the last author.
 ** '''authorlink''': Title of existing Wikipedia article about the author— not the author's website. Must not be wikilinked itself.
 **OR: for multiple authors, use '''authorlink1''' through '''authorlink9'''.
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 * '''type''': Can be used to provide additional information about the publication type. Appears in parentheses following the title.{{#if:{{{type_default|}}}|&#32;Defaults to {{{type_default}}}.}}
+{{Citation Style documentation/opt|
+* '''type_default''': Adds Defaults to ''type_default''
+}}
 |journal=
 * '''journal''' or '''periodical''' or '''newspaper''' or '''magazine''': Name of the source.
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 * '''author-name-separator''': Changes the separator between last and first names; defaults to a comma and space (, ); if the parameter is present, but blank, no separator punctuation will be used; a space must be percent encoded as <code>&amp#32;</code>; do not use a semicolon (;), colon (:) or hash (#) as they will be interpreted as wikimarkup.
 * '''author-separator''': Changes the separator between authors; defaults to a semicolon and space (; ); if the parameter is present, but blank, no separator punctuation will be used; a space must be percent encoded as <code>&amp#32;</code>; do not use a semicolon (;), colon (:) or hash (#) as they will be interpreted as wikimarkup.
-* '''display-authors''': By default, the number of authors displayed is limited to 8; if 9 are provided, the ninth is displayed as "et al." This parameter allows display of fewer authors before the "et al." (e.g., {{para|display-authors|2); alternatively, the "et al." may be suppressed by the use of {{para|display-authors|9}}.
+* '''display-authors''': By default, the number of authors displayed is limited to 8; if 9 are provided, the ninth is displayed as "et al." This parameter allows display of fewer authors before the "et al." (e.g., {{para|display-authors|2}}; the "et al." may be suppressed by the use of {{para|display-authors|9}}.
 * '''lastauthoramp''': When set to any value, changes the separator to use between the last two names in lists of authors to an ampersand (&); defaults to a semicolon and space (; ), else {{para|author-separator}} if set.
 * '''postscript''': The closing punctuation for the citation; defaults to a period (.); if the parameter is present, but blank, no terminating punctuation will be used. Ignored if {{para|quote}} is specified.