PLoSWiki:Citing Sources

This page describes how to cite sources for PLoSWiki articles. The goal in establishing these guidelines is to maintain compatibility with wikipedia methods for inserting references, while obeying PLoS formatting guidelines.

Including references
Sources should be cited using a numerical footnote. This can be include by enclosing the full citation in  tags. For instance, you might include the following in an article

as seen in recent work, ...

which would render as

"as seen in recent work, ..."

If a reference is used multiple times in an article, it can be assigned a name.

Some author combinations may be statistically unlikely. However, Tompa acknowledges this is probably just coincidence.

Rendering as

"Some author combinations may be statistically unlikely. However, Tompa acknowledges this is probably just coincidence."

The actual citations should be included at the bottom using the  tag, as so:

== References == section will result in an error.

For more information on using  and , see the Cite.php Extension documentation.

Citing from Pubmed
The above examples use manually formatted citations. A much easier and less error-prone method is to automatically generate citations based on PubMed identifier. Note that this only works for scholarly articles indexed in Pubmed. Books and unindexed articles should still be input manually.

To fetch a citation from Pubmed, use the Cite pmid template with the correct Pubmed ID:

giving the following citation in the references section.

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Formatting
Punctuation should go directly before the reference.