Shortcut: WP:PMID

The Wikipedia software recognizes inline PMID codes for life sciences and biomedical articles and automatically creates a search link to PubMed, much as it does for ISBNs for books (see Wikipedia:ISBN). No template is required to enable this feature.

It is important when making a link to have only a space after "PMID" followed by the numbers; do not use the colon which is present in PubMed citations.

Example

Correct: PMID 4957203

Incorrect: PMID:4957203

Incorrect: PubMed 4957203

[edit] External links

• Tool that can automatically generate Wikipedia citations from a PubMed ID
• Universal reference formatter, another citation tool that generates a {{Cite journal}} template from a PubMed ID
• Biblio.php, an extension of Mediawiki, the wiki software used here at Wikipedia. It provides a bibliography management system for wikis and supports direct PMID-based referencing.

[edit] See also

• Wikipedia:ISBN
• Wikipedia:ISSN
• Template:bibcode