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MEDLINE Indexing Online Training Course

Category V - Publication Characteristics

Publication Types

Publication Type (PT) is the term used to classify the types of articles published in journals. Each article has at least one Publication Type and may have more than one. In addition to assigning the appropriate MeSH headings and subheadings to an article, the indexer must also assign the appropriate Publication Type(s).

Publication Types can be added either from the Article Panel or Indexing Panel in IMS. The indexer selects the appropriate Publication Type(s) from the pull-down "pick" list.

All of the Publication Types
Abbreviations
Abstracts
Academic Dissertations
Account Books
Adaptive Clinical Trial
Addresses
Advertisements
Almanacs
Anecdotes
Animation
Annual Reports
Aphorisms and Proverbs
Architectural Drawings
Atlases
Autobiography
Bibliography
Biobibliography
Biography
Blogs
Book Illustrations
Book Reviews
Bookplates
Broadsides
Calendars
Caricatures
Cartoons
Case Reports
Catalog
Catalog, Commercial
Catalog, Drug
Catalog, Union
Charts
Chronology
Classical Article
Clinical Conference
Clinical Study
Clinical Trial
Clinical Trial, Phase I
Clinical Trial , Phase II
Clinical Trial, Phase III
Clinical Trial, Phase IV
Clinical Trial Protocol
Clinical Trial, Veterinary
Collected Correspondence
Collected Works
Collections
Comment
Comparative Study
Congresses
Consensus Development Conference
Consensus Development Conference, NIH
Controlled Clinical Trial
Cookbooks
Corrected and Republished Article
Database
Dataset
Diaries
Dictionary
Dictionary, Chemical
Dictionary, Classical
Dictionary, Dental
Dictionary, Medical
Dictionary, Pharmaceutic
Dispensatory
Directory
Documentaries and Factual Films
Drawings
Duplicate Publication
Editorial
Electronic Journals
Electronic Supplementary Materials
Encyclopedias
Ephemera
Equivalence Trial
Essays
Eulogies
Evaluation Studies
Examination Questions
Exhibitions
Expression of Concern
Festschrift
Fictional Works
Forms
Formularies
Formularies, Hospital
Formulary, Homeopathic
Funeral Sermons
Government Publications
Graphic Novels
Guidebooks
Guideline
Handbooks
Herbals
Historical Article
Humor
Incunabula
Indexes
Instructional Films and Videos
Interactive Tutorial
Interview
Introductory Journal Article
Journal Article
Juvenile Literature
Laboratory Manuals
Lecture Notes
Lectures
Legal Cases
Legislation
Letter
Manuscript
Manuscript, Medical
Maps
Meeting Abstracts
Meta-Analysis
Monograph
Movable Books
Multicenter Study
News
Newspaper Article
Nurses' Instructions
Observational Study
Observational Study, Veterinary
Outlines
Patents
Patient Education Handout
Periodical Index
Periodicals
Personal Narratives
Pharmacopoeia
Pharmacopoeia, Homeopathic
Photographs
Phrases
Pictorial Works
Poetry
Popular Works
Portraits
Postcards
Posters
Practice Guideline
Pragmatic Clinical Trial
Preprint
Price Lists
Problems and Exercises
Programmed Instructions
Programs
Prospectuses
Public Service Announcements
Published Erratum
Randomized Controlled Trial
Randomized Controlled Trial, Veterinary
Resource Guides
Retracted Publication
Retraction of Publication
Review
Scientific Integrity Review
Sermons
Statistics
Study Guide
Systematic Review
Tables
Technical Report
Terminology
Textbooks
Twin Study
Unedited Footage
Union Lists
Unpublished Works
Validation Studies
Video-Audio Media
Web Archive
Webcasts

Last Reviewed: January 17, 2020