Template:Medical citation needed/doc

Usage

{{Medical citation needed|date=March 2025}}

Redirects

• {{medref inline}}
• {{medref-inline}}
• {{Medcn}}
• {{MEDCN}}

See also

• {{Medical citation needed span}} − functions exactly the same way as this template, except it highlights the text that needs a reference. E.g., this text is an unsourced biomedical claim.
• {{More medical citations needed}} – adds a banner to the article: "This article needs more medical references for verification or ..."
• {{Unreliable medical source}} – adds:
• {{RSPlease}} – a note for user talk pages with links to WP:MEDRS

Policies, guidelines, essays, and WikiProjects

Medicine-specific

• Vickers, Tim and Eubulides (30 June 2008). "Dispatches: Sources in biology and medicine"". The Wikipedia Signpost.
• Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources (medicine)
  • Wikipedia:Biomedical information
• Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources (science)
• Wikipedia:Reliable source examples § Physical sciences and medicine
• Wikipedia:Current science and technology sources
• Wikipedia:Conflicts of interest (medicine)
• Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Medicine-related articles
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine/Resources, external resources useful for writing medicine related content

General

• Wikipedia:Citing sources, especially § Unsourced material
• Wikipedia:Independent sources
• Wikipedia:Reliable sources
• Wikipedia:Verifiability
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Reliability