User talk:Niallmcg
Welcome to Wikipedia from the Wikiproject Medicine!
[edit]Welcome to Wikipedia from Wikiproject Medicine (also known as WPMED).
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Feel free to drop a note below if you have any problems. I wish you all the best here in Wikipedia! Jytdog (talk) 21:17, 21 November 2016 (UTC)
Note on formatting citations
[edit]Quick note, that 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) Huhtaniemi, I (2014). "Late-onset hypogonadism: current concepts and controversies of pathogenesis, diagnosis and treatment". Asian journal of andrology. 16 (2): 192–202. PMID 24407185. (/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, please always cite it, even if you don't use the autofill feature.
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) Huhtaniemi, I (2014). "Late-onset hypogonadism: current concepts and controversies of pathogenesis, diagnosis and treatment". Asian journal of andrology. 16 (2): 192–202. PMC 3955328. PMID 24407185. (/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.
Again, welcome! Jytdog (talk) 21:18, 21 November 2016 (UTC)
Your submission at Articles for creation: Faculty of Dental Surgery, RCPSG (September 26)
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Hello! Niallmcg,
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Your submission at Articles for creation: Faculty of Dental Surgery, RCPSG (November 7)
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Your submission at Articles for creation: Faculty of Dental Surgery, RCPSG (November 10)
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Your submission at Articles for creation: Faculty of Dental Surgery, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow (December 27)
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Your submission at Articles for creation: Faculty of Dental Surgery, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow (June 27)
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Your submission at Articles for creation: Faculty of Dental Surgery, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow (September 30)
[edit]- If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to Draft:Faculty of Dental Surgery, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
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