HOW TO GET WEB ADDRESS (URL) FOR YOUR CITATION

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1. OPEN PUBMED

2. FIND YOUR CITATION

3. COPY AND PASTE WEB ADDRESS

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This document describes the procedure for obtaining web address (URL) for references in your Neurobiology of Lipids manuscript. For information on how to write an article for publication, check the Uniform Requirements for the manuscripts submitted to the BioMedical Journals, and technical requirements of the Neurobiology of Lipids. Also, please see our Advice to Authors.

1. How to open PubMed in your web browser

Open your web browser, type PubMed web address in the address field (underlined on the image below in red), and press ENTER. Alternatively, just click here to get to PubMed.

The resulting screen will likely look in the following way:

If so, you are few clicks away from the result.

2. How to find your citation

Let's take an example and assume that you would like to find web address (URL) for the following two articles:

Let's find web address for the first reference. We will simultaneously verify the accuracy of this citation (why not to do so?).

A. Type 'Taubes G and 2001' in the 'search PubMed for' field of the PubMed screen, as illustrated below. Press then 'Go' button (indicated by red star)

B. The above action will likely lead you to the list of 'Taubes G' articles published during 2001.

As you can see on the illustration below (there is another red star to point you) the third entry is exactly what we are looking for. We also verify that citation details (i.e. volume, pages, year, titles, and the author) are correct.

C. We then click on the third entry as illustrated both above and below:

The above action should lead you to the detailed citation of this article in the PubMed system (see below).


 

3. How to copy and paste web address 

A. Take a look on the above screen and find the 'address window' of your web browser (underlined below with red line).

This browser 'address window' contains some automatic typing. This typing is the web address (URL) that we need.

B. To take this typing let's first click on it. Let's do it right in the middle (red star on the above figure) of the 'address window'.

This action should turn the above typing into the blue (see below) indicating that you 'selected' it and made it available for the next action.

C. Now press simultaneously two keyboard keys CTRL and C (or execute COPY command of the EDIT menu at the top of your browser).

This action (copying) takes the underlined typing into the computer memory buffer (called 'clipboard'), from where you can paste it to any other application.

D. Let's now bring the web address of the above citation to the Miscrosoft Word manuscript file.

To do this first switch to your manuscript file window, and move your cursor to a desired position (indicated by red star on the figure below).

Press now simultaneously CTRL and V (or execute PASTE command of the EDIT menu at the top of your word processor).

The above action (called pasting) incorporates the web address for Taubes contribution to the manuscript.

At this point it is important to verify that the number that appeared in the pasted web address (11286266, see figure below) is identical to the number that we had in the web browser address window (illustrated above).

In case your word processor is the late version of the Microsoft Word (i.e. any version above Word97) we will appreciate your moving cursor to the end of the web address (red vertical bar above) and pressing ENTER.

This action will introduce the line between references and will turn pasted web address into the blues and underlined text.

It means that this address can now be accessed directly from the word file, a good opportunity for your article reviewer to get to PubMed citations of your references with just a mouse click.

Please note: similarly to pasting web address into the manuscript file, you may use it for any other purpose (like pasting it in email message to share it with a colleague).

We thus successfully finished with the first reference in our example.

You may now wish to return from the manuscript (word processor) window to your browser window, so, you can execute the search for the second reference.

To locate 'Marx J' contribution in our example we typed 'Marx J and Alzheimer's disease and 2001' into the PubMed 'search for' field.

The above action provided us (similarly to the search performed above) with the list of related articles by Marx J published in 2001 (see figure below).

First reference (of total three) is what we need. Click on it (red arrow) lead us to the next screen that represented detailed PubMed entry of this article by Marx.

From this screen we can copy the PubMed web address to the clipboard and then paste it into the manuscript.

We hope that you can accomplish this operation, too. Here is what you should get:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=11641483&dopt=Abstract

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