MyWiki:WikiProject Medicine/Dermatology task force/Sources

Ensuring proper referencing

A major focus of the dermatology task force is to ensure dermatologic content is thoroughly and properly referenced. Generally, content should not be added without citation of a reliable secondary source. See WP:MEDRS for more information on reliable secondary sources for medical articles.

Citing sources

The Manual of Style for medicine-related articles explains how to insert references. Additionally, PubMed lists the most important English biomedical journals and is free to search for abstracts with some links to full articles, and from the PubMed PMID abstract number Diberi's tool may be used to generate the necessary {{Cite journal}} markup code along with the enclosing <ref>....</ref> tags for inline citations.

Reliable secondary source examples

The following examples use cite templates, such as {{Cite book}} and {{Cite journal}}. Reliable secondary sources are fundamental for contributing to Wikipedia content.

Example citations

The article Acne aestivalis provides a basic example of how to properly cite a reliable secondary source.

See also

• Wikipedia:Verifiability