Sam Korn wrote:
Yuck yuck yuck.
I retract my previous comment. This is what comes of absurdly complicated template syntax.
No. Just non-intuitive behaviour of subst. :-)
You might want to "vote" for http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2777
In the mean time, you can copy/paste the call into http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ExpandTemplates and paste the result into the article.
If that's what you prefer (or the consensus may be)...
The Germans use a list of red tape for the formatting at http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Literatur#Format.
And they never change that. For obvious reasons :-)