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

This template is used to generate an external link to a web page for an object in the Royal Collection.

The two required parameters are:

• RCIN, Royal Collection Identification Number. It is displayed on every object page; it is also a part of the address of every object page.
• Object name to be displayed with the link.

The third parameter is optional:

• Creator of the object to be displayed with the link.

{{Royal Collection|912197|Sir George Carew}} gives:

"Sir George Carew". Royal Collection Trust. Inventory no. 912197.

{{Royal Collection|912197|Sir George Carew|Hans Holbein the Younger}} gives:

Hans Holbein the Younger. "Sir George Carew". Royal Collection Trust. Inventory no. 912197.

{{Royal Collection|912197|Sir George Carew|[[Hans Holbein the Younger]]}} gives:

Hans Holbein the Younger. "Sir George Carew". Royal Collection Trust. Inventory no. 912197.

Alternatively use parameter names:

rcin=Royal Collection Identification Number
title=Object Name
creator=Creator or alternatively author=Author

In addition there are some other named parameter which can be used with named or unnamed parameters:

ref defaults to:

ref=RC rcin

but ref can be overwritten with any value including "none"

ref=none

If is for use with the Harvard templates such as {{sfn}}:

 {{sfn|RC|rcin}}

mode defaults to

mode=cs1

but it can be overwritten with any value. For example

|mode=cs2 

For more details on "mode" see Help:Citation Style 1 (used by templates such as {{cite web}}) and Help:Citation Style 2 (used by {{citation}}).