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by: {{{author}}}
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Reviewed by: [[{{{first}}} {{{last}}}]]

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This template formats bibliographic and reviewer information for a book under review. It is designed for use in review pages or entries and floats a metadata box on the right-hand side.

Usage

Place the following code on your review page and fill in the appropriate fields:

{{BookReviewBox
 | title   = The Metaphysical Club
 | author  = Louis Menand
 | location= New York
 | pub     = Farrar, Straus and Giroux
 | date    = 2001
 | pages   = 546 pp.
 | type    = Hardback
 | price   = 27.00
 | note    = Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
 | first   = Jane
 | last    = Doe
 | link    = https://example.com/purchase
 | url     = https://example.com/full-review
}}

Parameters

title: (required) The title of the book, which will be italicized.
author: (required) Full name of the author of the book being reviewed.
location: (required) City of publication.
pub: (required) Publisher's name.
date: (required) Year of publication.
pages: (required) Total number of pages, e.g., "320 pp."
type: (required) Book format (e.g., Paperback, Hardback, Cloth).
price: (required) Book price, entered as a number (e.g., "24.95").
note: (optional) Any additional note (e.g., awards, notable facts).
first: (required) First name of the reviewer.
last: (required) Last name of the reviewer.
link: (optional) URL for purchasing the book. Displayed as "Link for purchase."
url: (optional) URL to the full review. Displayed as "Full review."

Category Added

This template automatically categorizes the review page in the following ways:

[[Category:Written by FIRST LAST]]
[[Category:Book Reviews (MR)]]

These help organize reviews for browsing and indexing by author, publisher, year, and reviewer.

Notes

If no optional fields are filled in, they will not appear.
The reviewer name is automatically linked to a page titled "First Last."

The above documentation is transcluded from Template:BookReview/doc. (edit | history)
Editors can experiment in this template's sandbox (edit | diff) and testcases (create) pages.
Please add categories to the /doc subpage. Subpages of this template.

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