Kellynbobellyn

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Hello, Kellynbobellyn, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Ian and I work with the Wiki Education Foundation; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:25, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

Ciations

Please look at this citation you added:

Cite journal|last=Garcia-Romeu|first=Albert|last2=Kersgaard|first2=Brennan|last3=H. Addy|first3=Peter|year=2016|title=Clinical Applications of Hallucinogens: A Review|url=https://journals.ohiolink.edu/pg_99?104229382556114::NO::P99_ENTITY_ID,P99_ENTITY_TYPE:265307311,MAIN_FILE&cs=3EOXRsG9UbIXG0dxubrYYgutEdNvP4W1DRyWMPK3vDx7CwHRNHj1OwEn5qziFsnKfn1c-rGCfl4qnTzOlZMnXzA%7Cjournal=Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology|publisher=American Psychological Association|volume=24|pages=229-268|via=

Do you see that link? That is unusable for anyone outside your school network. There is also no pubmed ID and the publisher is wrong.

There is a very easy and fast way to do citations, which often also provides a link that allows readers to more easily find the source being cited.

You will notice that when you are in an edit window, that up at the top there is a toolbar. On the right, it says "Cite" and there is a little triangle next to it. If you click the triangle, another menu appears below. On the left side of the new menu bar, you will see "Templates". If you select (for example) "Cite journal", you can fill in the "doi" or the "PMID" field, and then if you click the little magnifying glass next to the field, the whole thing will auto-fill. Then you click the "insert" button at the bottom, and it will insert a ref like this (I changed the ref tags so it shows):

(ref) Garcia-Romeu, A; Kersgaard, B; Addy, PH (August 2016). "Clinical applications of hallucinogens: A review". Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology. 24 (4): 229–68. PMID 27454674. (/ref)

That takes about 10 seconds. As you can see there are templates for books, news, and websites, as well as journal articles, and each template has at least one field that you can use to autofill the rest. The autofill isn't perfect and I usually have to manually fix some things before I click "insert" but it generally works great and saves a bunch of time.

The PMID parameter is the one we care about the most.

One thing the autofill doesn't do, is add the PMC field if it is there (PMC is a link to a free fulltext version of the article). you can add that after you insert the citation, or -- while you have the "cite journal" template open -- you can click the "show/hide extra fields" button at the bottom, and you will see the PMC field on the right, near the bottom. If you add the PMC number there that will be included, like this (again I have changed the ref tags):

(ref) Garcia-Romeu, A; Kersgaard, B; Addy, PH (August 2016). "Clinical applications of hallucinogens: A review". Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology. 24 (4): 229–68. PMC 5001686. PMID 27454674. (/ref)

The autofill also doesn't add the URL if there is a free fulltext that is not in PMC. You can add that manually too, after you autofill with PMID

If you don't understand anything above, please ask. Jytdog (talk) 23:22, 22 February 2017 (UTC)

Some more guidance

Welcome to Wikipedia and Wikiproject Medicine

We have compiled some guidance for new healthcare editors:

1. Use high-quality sources for medical content (see WP:MEDRS). High-quality sources include review articles (which are not the same as peer-reviewed), position statements from nationally and internationally recognized bodies (like CDC, WHO, FDA), and major medical textbooks. Lower-quality sources are typically removed.
2. Reference tags generally go after punctuation, not before; there is no preceding space.
3. We use very few capital letters and very little bolding. Only the first word of a heading is usually capitalized.
4. Common terms are not usually wikilinked; nor are years, dates, or names of countries and major cities.
5. Do not use URLs from your university library's internal net: the rest of the world cannot see them.
6. Include page numbers when referencing a book or long journal article.
7. Format references consistently within an article and be sure to cite the PMID for journal articles and ISBN for books; see WP:MEDHOW.
8. Never copy and paste from sources; we run detection software on new edits.
9. The ordering of sections typically follows the instructions at WP:MEDMOS.
10. Think carefully before working on featured articles (these have a gold star at top right). It is often hard to improve featured articles.
11. Talk to us! Wikipedia works by collaboration at articles and user talkpages.

Once again, welcome, and thank you for joining us. Please share these guidelines with other new editors.

– the WikiProject Medicine team and Jytdog (talk) 23:50, 22 February 2017 (UTC)