Template:Use PMID reference names/doc

Usage
If the page contains template, then all the reference names for citations that have a PubMed ID attribute |pmid= should be named "pmidNNNNNN", because for editors of medicine articles the PubMed ID has semantic value and allows to distinguish easily from another reference. The choice of reference naming among the PubMed articles is a personal preference. If editors decided to use this notion, then the template will denote this decision to avoid style wars. This way of specifying the citation name list format is similar to specifying the date format via the template when humans and bots use date format as specified for the whole the page using the template.

Parameters
There is an optional "date" parameter.