Template:Cite Bing Maps/doc

This is a documentation subpage for Template:Cite Bing Maps. It may contain usage information, categories and other content that is not part of the original template page.

This template is a Citation Style 1 specific-source template based on {{Cite map}}. For centralised Citation Style 1 discussions, see Help talk:Citation Style 1.

This template is used for referencing maps published by Microsoft through their Bing Maps service.

It can also be set to emulate CS2 style.

Note that unlike paper maps, Bing Maps offers dynamic sizing at variable scales. Major citation style guides omit a map scale in that situation so this template does not render any scale output.

This template is a Citation Style 1 wrapper template based on {{Cite map}}. For centralised Citation Style 1 discussions, see Help talk:Citation Style 1.

This template accepts all parameters that {{cite map}} does.

This code:

{{Bing maps |url=http://binged.it/Q06Ih9 |title=Grand Rapids, MI |access-date=28 August 2025}}

generates this:

Microsoft; Nokia. "Grand Rapids, MI" (Map). Bing Maps. Microsoft. Retrieved 28 August 2025.

• url: the URL for the map in question
• title: a "subtitle" for the map. The link text will appear as "<title>" if "title" is used; otherwise, it will be the page name.
• access-date: the full retrieval date.
• link: set to no to unlink the authors.
• mode: set to "cs2" to use Citation Style 2 output
• last-author-amp: to join the authors with an ampersand (&) instead of a semicolon (;) for consistency with other citations in an article

• {{Google maps}}, the counterpart to this template for Google Maps
• {{Mapquest}}, the counterpart to this template for MapQuest
• {{Cite map}}, generic