Listing Periods for New Articles 

The listing periods used determines whether a reference assignment is automatically created for the article/site combination.

The following table show the possible results of this check:

No.	Listing periods in the past	The article is listed in the site	Listing periods in the future	Reference is created
1	No	No	No	No
2	No	No	Yes	Yes
3	No	Yes	No	Yes
4	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
5	Yes	No	No	No
6	Yes	No	Yes	No
7	Yes	Yes	No	No
8	Yes	Yes	Yes	No