Template:OAGWorldRef/doc

Audience

People looking at airport, airline or aviation-related pages on wikipedia. You are likely
- Adding a reference / citation from the OAG Worldwide paper timetable to English-language wikipedia (most common use case)
or
- Aiming to understand what the OAGWorldRef template is all about

Purpose:

This is a helper template. You probably don't want to use it on wiki-page directly. You can use it directly if you want, but it's designed to be used instead from month-specific templates for the OAG Worldwide paper timetable. See for example Template:OAGWorldAug2023Ref instead - this will additionally auto-populate the fields for the month, year, volume and issue number.

How to use

Required Fields

See the example below for sample data to go in each field.
Title - the The name, country and IATA airport code of the city (not the airport) being referenced as specified in the specific edition of the paper OAG World Timetable. As of July 2025, this will match the title of the section in the paper timetable. Where a city has only a single airport, use the IATA code for the airport. Where an IATA code does not exist, use the ICAO code - i.e. |title=
Pages - the page number, either as a single number or a range - i.e. |pages=
Month - the name of the month - i.e. |month=
Year - the four digit year - i.e. |year=
Volume - the volume number of the edition - i.e. |volume=
Issue - the issue number of the edition - i.e. |issue=

Field Ordering

Title, Month, Year, Volume, Issue and Pages can be in any order.

Fields Automatically filled in for you

Journal (|journal=OAG Fight Guide Worldwide)
Publisher (|publisher=[[OAG (company)|OAG Aviation Worldwide Limited)
Publication Place (|publication-place=Luton, United Kingdom)
ISSN (|issn=1466-8718)
OCLC (|oclc=41608313)
Author (|author = <!-- not stated -->)
Lanaguage (|language=en - i.e. English)

Example

Previously

You might have written:
<ref>
{{Cite journal
| title = Eindhoven, Netherlands EIN
| pages = 347-349
| date = August 2023
| volume = 25
| issue = 2
| journal = OAG Flight Guide Worldwide
| publisher = [[OAG (company)|OAG Aviation Worldwide Limited]]
| publication-place = Luton, United Kingdom
| issn = 1466-8718
| oclc = 41608313
| language = en
| author = <!-- not stated -->
}}
</ref>

This reference will be displayed to a wikipedia reader as:

Now

You can type the shorter:
<ref>
{{OAGWorldRef
| title = Eindhoven, Netherlands EIN
| pages = 347-349
| month = August
| year = 2023
| volume = 25
| issue = 2
}}
</ref>

This reference will be displayed to a wikipedia reader as:

Result

But the two references display the same way ? Yes - that's the point. They are meant to be the same.

Benefit

As far as a wikipedia reader is concerned - the 2 references look exactly the same, and contain exactly the same content, but there is less for you to type, and less risk of you making a typing error on 6 of the fields.

FAQ

1. Should I use OAGWorldRef ? Indirectly, yes. Directly, not really (although it will still work). Remember, this is a helper template.
There are other templates - see for example Template:OAGWorldAug2023Ref - this template will do the work of the OAGWorldRef template, but also populate the month, year, volume and issue fields.
If there isn't a template for the specific month you want to use, you should probably create one:
- Use the August 2023 template as a base pattern and then
- Create your own second-level template, filling in the 4 additional fields correctly in the template.
Then you use this other template.
For example, if you wanted to reference the January 2024 paper copy of the OAG World Timetable, create the OAGWorldJan2024Ref template (but remembering to update the 4 fields from of month, year, volume and issue in the template you create) and then use that.

TemplateData

This is the TemplateData for this template used by TemplateWizard, VisualEditor and other tools. See a monthly parameter usage report for Template:OAGWorldRef in articles based on its TemplateData.

TemplateData for OAGWorldRef

Used for generic reference to the OAG World Timetable

Template parameters

Parameter		Description	Type	Status
Title	title	The name, country and IATA airport code of the city (not the airport) being referenced as specified in the specific edition of the paper OAG World Timetable. As of July 2025, this will match the title of the section in the paper timetable. Where a city has only a single airport, use the IATA code for the airport. Where an IATA code does not exist, use the ICAO code Example Tokyo, Japan TYO	String	required
Pages	pages	Page number(s) referenced Example 123 (for a single page) or 123-124 (for multiple pages)	String	required
Month	month	Month of publication Example July	String	required
Year	year	Year of publication Example 2023	String	required
Volume	volume	Volume number Example 25	String	required
Issue	issue	Issue number Example 1	String	required