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This template is wrapper around {{cite book}} and can take all the parameters that {{cite book}} can.

In addition there are two non-standard parameters

• pd=no—if set means no public domain attribution prescript. This is only to be set if no text is copied from the country code book.
• country=value—where the value can be any of the following names (all letters in lowercase and with spaces):

albania; algeria; angola; armenia; austria

bahrain; bangladesh; barbados; belarus; belize; bhutan; bolivia; brazil; bulgaria

cambodia; chad; chile; china; colombia; comoros; caribbean; cyprus; czechoslovakia

dominican republic

ecuador; egypt; el salvador; estonia

germany; ghana; guyana

hungary

india; indonesia; ivory coast

japan; jamaica

kazakstan; kyrgyzstan; kuwait

laos; latvia; the leeward islands; lithuania

madagascar; maldives; mauritius; moldova; mongolia

nepal; north korea

oman

pakistan; paraguay; philippines; poland

qatar

romania; russia

seychelles; singapore; soviet union; sri lanka

tajikistan; the leeward islands; the northern islands; the windward islands; thailand; tobago; trinidad; turkmenistan

united arab emirates; uruguay; uzbekistan

vietnam

the windward islands

Example with author:

• {{csref |author=Rex A. Hudson |country=ecuador |section=Labor}}
  

• This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain. Rex A. Hudson (1989). "Labor". In Hanratty, Dennis M. (ed.). Ecuador: A country study. Federal Research Division, Library of Congress. LCCN 91009494.

Example with first and last

• {{csref |first=Patricia |last=Kluck |country=ecuador |section=Ethnic Groups}}
  

• This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain. Kluck, Patricia (1989). "Ethnic Groups". In Hanratty, Dennis M. (ed.). Ecuador: A country study. Federal Research Division, Library of Congress. LCCN 91009494.

Example with pd set

• {{csref|country=uruguay|section=Constitutional Background|first=Rex A.|last=Hudson |pd=no}}
  

• Hudson, Rex A. (December 1993). "Constitutional Background". In Hudson, Rex A.; Meditz, Sandra W. (eds.). Uruguay: A country study. Federal Research Division, Library of Congress. LCCN 92006702.

Example withcountry parameter that does not match any of the options (including case):

• {{csref|country=afganistan |author=Peter R. Blood|section=Introduction|pd=no}}
  

• Peter R. Blood. "Introduction". Federal Research Division, Library of Congress. {{cite book}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

Example without country parameter:

• {{csref|author=Sergiu Verona|section=Government and Politics}}
  

• {{Csref|country=Missing or empty}}

• The whole of the "Collection Country Studies" (82 articles) of the Library of Congress.