Template:PMID/doc

This template provides an external link to PubMed abstracts of biomedical journals.

It is intended to be used where a short in-text citation link is adequate to get the point across and where including a full citation might be overkill (as, for example, on talk pages).

Usage
The template requires a PMID abstract number to be given:

Call: Result:

To find a PMID abstract number, search for the article at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed

This template also supports up to nine PMIDs, so the template comes in helpful to conveniently format lists of PMIDs (for example, in tables):

Call: Result:

For leadouts different from the default "," this can be specified using the optional leadout parameter:

Call: Result:

The template also supports plain links using the plainlink parameter:

Call: Result:

Call: Result:

Full citation
To generate full Template:Cite journal markup from a known PubMed abstract number, use Diberri's Wikipedia template filling tool which, for the example above, may yield something like: