References

Introduction

A reference or footnote is a note placed at the bottom of a page of a document to comment on a part of the main text, or to provide a reference for it, or both. The connection between the relevant text and its footnote is indicated by a number which appears both after the relevant text and before the footnote.

Footnotes are sometimes useful for relevant text that would distract from the main point if embedded in the main text, yet are helpful in explaining a point in greater detail. Footnotes are also often used to cite references that are relevant to a text. Citation of sources is required by WikiDoc.

Preferred method of adding references

One goal of WikiDoc is to create reference lists that allow you to click on the PubMed ID number at the end of the reference and go to the primary article itself. This greatly facilitates locating references. Therefore, the preferred method of citing references includes a method by which not only the article is cited, but also the PubMed ID number.

The preferred method for inserting a reference is as follows:

1. Use PubMed to locate the article you are interested in by clicking here
2. Copy the PubMed ID number from the article. The word PubMed ID is often abbreviated PMID and this number is located at the bottom of the abstract. You can use the search function on Firefox or Internet explorer to locate the word PMID and the number will follow this abbreviation. It will look something like this:

PMID: 19032997

1. Paste the PubMed ID number (PMID) into a software program that creates the reference you are going to paste into the text of your article. You can access software for converting a pubmed ID number into a reference by clicking here
2. Make sure the button that says ref tag is checked in the software program.
3. Copy the output from the software programs. For example, the output for the PMID above (19032997) is as follows:

<ref name="pmid19032997">{{cite journal |author=Gibson CM, Pride YB, Frederick PD, ''et al'' |title=Trends in reperfusion strategies, door-to-needle and door-to-balloon times, and in-hospital mortality among patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction enrolled in the National Registry of Myocardial Infarction from 1990 to 2006 |journal=Am. Heart J. |volume=156 |issue=6 |pages=1035–44 |year=2008 |month=December |pmid=19032997 |doi=10.1016/j.ahj.2008.07.029 |url=}}</ref>

1. Paste this output from the reference manager softwre right where you want the superscript number to appear in the text.

For example, using the above reference, you migh type something like this:

Gibson et al recently summarized the improvements made in clincial oucomes as a result of 15 years of quality improvement efforts in the NRMI registry <ref name="pmid19032997">{{cite journal |author=Gibson CM, Pride YB, Frederick PD, ''et al'' |title=Trends in reperfusion strategies, door-to-needle and door-to-balloon times, and in-hospital mortality among patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction enrolled in the National Registry of Myocardial Infarction from 1990 to 2006 |journal=Am. Heart J. |volume=156 |issue=6 |pages=1035–44 |year=2008 |month=December |pmid=19032997 |doi=10.1016/j.ahj.2008.07.029 |url=}}</ref>

Add a Reference or Footnote

1. Place a <ref> ... </ref> immediately after the sentence where you want a footnote number to appear.
2. Next, type the text of the note between the ref tags. For example if I typed this

This was on of the first articles I published <ref>J Fam Pract. 2000 Oct;49(10):921-3.</ref> 

It would appear as this

This was on of the first articles I published 

Finally Add a Reference Section at the Bottom of Your Article

1. Place the <references/> tag in a "Notes" or "References" section near the end of the article and the list of notes will be generated here.

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