User talk:Picardlm

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Referencing
Thanks for your contributions at neuropathy, and for adding the references. Within the ref tags one can use (ie it is optional) various citation templates to markup in a more standardise manner. In particular cite journal can be created automatically from the PubMed PMID abstract number, and this can provide a much faster way of adding the ref-tagged footnotes. I generally have open the following two pages all the time when I edit:
 * 1) PubMed search page to locate an article: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez
 * 2) User:Diberri's tool to auto-generate footnotes from PubMed's PMID abstract number: http://diberri.dyndns.org/wikipedia/templates/?type=pmid

So as an example for the reference you kindly provided of "Davis AM, Inturrisi CE. d-Methadone blocks morphine tolerance and N-methyl-D aspartate-induced hyperalgesia. J Pharmacol Exp Ther. 1999 My;289:1048":
 * 1) This PubMed abstract is found which has PMID number of 10215686, but also gives a link to the free online whole article (this)
 * 2) Dibberi's Wikipedia template filling tool result for using the PMID number.
 * 3) If we then add the url link we also got in step 1 to the markup generated for us in step 2, we can generate a footnote that is more complete in its citation details and has links to both an abstract and the full article that others can quickly check upon:

I hope this makes things quicker and easier for you, but if this all proves too complex, continue doing your fine submissions and others can work on the copyediting tasks :-)

Incidentally, you can use the "Show preview" button whilst editing to review an edit as you develop it, so that you do not need to save so many small incremental edits. Also helpful is to add at least a brief description of an editing contribution into the "Edit summary" box.

Finally if you are interested generally in medical topics, see the Medical Wikiproject at WP:MED or chat to us at its discussion page (the Doctors' Mess) of WT:MED - (NB no medical qualification required) :-) David Ruben Talk 00:54, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

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