Editing Template:Harvard citation documentation (section)

=== No closing period: <code>|ps=none</code> ===

Using {{para|ps|none}} in {{tl2|sfn}} removes the final period. Compare the two examples. Suppressing the default period (full stop) ensures consistency with [[Help:Citation_Style_2|Citation style 2]], as produced by {{tl2|Citation}}, which does not use a trailing period (full stop) when rendering full citations. The postscript is only effective the first time {{tl2|sfn}} is used for a particular author, year, and location. {{para|ps|}} will also suppress terminal punctuation. Follow-on editors who encounter 'empty' parameters can't know if a previous editor intended to leave that parameter blank. Using the keyword none is a positive indication of the previous editor's intent.

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Article text.{{sfn|Smith|2011|ps=none}}
== Notes ==
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Article text.{{sfn|Smith|2011|ps=none}}
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Article text.{{sfn|Smith|2011}}
== Notes ==
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Article text.{{sfn|Smith|2011}}
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