Template:Cite pmid

Template:cite pmid is deprecated, and is preserved only for historical reasons. Please see Template:cite journal instead.

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Please do not add cite pmid template to articles. Their use is deprecated and for this reason, Citation bot no longer expands cite pmid templates.

Overview

{{Cite pmid}} was a template that was used for citing a journal article using its PMID number. When this was functioning, an editor could use the template with the PMID number, and a bot would then fill out the full reference. However, the bot created a separate template page for each individual citation which were simply calls to {{cite journal}}. An RFC at this templates talk page concluded with the consensus that this template should no longer be used because of various problems caused by this system.

Instead use {{cite journal|pmid=...}}, which allows you to specify the PMID, then run the citation bot on the page. The Citoid feature, which is part of Visual Editor does this too, and as well as other third-party tools.

Third-party tools

When using third-party tools, you are still responsible for your edits. Proofread the content generated by any of these tools.

Wikipedia template filling tool, including searching by PMID
DOI Wikipedia reference generator
User:Citation bot

{{Cite Q}}, a similar method based on Wikidata items instead of PMID-based sub-templates
Template:Ref pmid, a historically deprecated method to create references based upon citations created by this template
Template:Cite doi, another historically deprecated method based on DOI-based sub-templates
Wikipedia:PMID and PubMed Central

The above documentation is transcluded from Template:Cite pmid/doc.
Editors can experiment in this template's sandbox and testcases pages.
Add categories to the /doc subpage. Subpages of this template.

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Overview

Third-party tools

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