References

Introduction

This online site has an extension installed that allows automatic reference formatting if the PubMed ID number is known.

You are not restricted to using this automatic formatting as any text enclosed by the tags:

<ref>your text here</ref>

Will appear exactly as formatted in your reference list.

How to Insert PubMed References

This online site has an extension that allows automatic reference formatting if the PubMed ID number is known. Shown below is the code required to make the reference display correctly on your page. In addition, if the reference is cited more than once on a page there is specific code required to get the right citation list generated. At the bottom of this section is an example of how the code displays references.

Simply copy and paste the text shown below replacing XXXXX with the only the PubMed number (no text).

Single Instance on Page

Where the cited text, image or other referenced material appears place the following code:

<ref><pubmed>XXXXX</pubmed></ref>

Then make a section towards the bottom of the page called "References" and place the following text below the heading

<references/>

Multiple Instances on Page

If the material is cited multiple times upon a page, then it can appear as a single entry in you list if it is "named" in the first instance that it appears. Where the first cited text, image or other referenced material appears place the following code:

<ref name="PMIDXXXXX"><pubmed>XXXXX</pubmed></ref>

Note the ref name must include the text PMID as a number alone is not allowed.

Future places where the above reference is cited place the following code:

<ref name="PMIDXXXXX "/>

Shown below is an example of how the citation will appear on the page and the reference list format.

Medline Database

MEDLINE is a literature database of life sciences and biomedical information containing review and research articles. See also Project Referencing to generate references within your project, a reference list on your page and formatting the pubmed reference link.

• Pubmed MEDLINE is the National Library of Medicine (NLM) USA premier bibliographic database covering the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the preclinical sciences." (NCBI)
  • MH - I would prefer reference links to be added pointing to this database.

• UNSW also has the MEDLINE database available through the Library using Sirius.
  • While it is essentially the same reference database, some papers will have different access rights based upon the university's subscriptions.

Searching with nearly any term will result in a large number of results that can be made more specific by either:

1. Using "Preview/Index" option to carry out an additional search and then combining with your first result. (#1 AND #2) or
2. Using "Limits" option to set limits on your search results. (review, years, english, etc)

OMIM Database

• OMIM - "OMIM is a comprehensive, authoritative, and timely compendium of human genes and genetic phenotypes. The full-text, referenced overviews in OMIM contain information on all known mendelian disorders and over 12,000 genes. OMIM focuses on the relationship between phenotype and genotype."