PMC Citation Exporter Feature Now Available

NCBI is happy to announce the addition of a citation exporter feature to PMC (PubMed Central). This feature makes it easy to retrieve styled citations that you can copy and paste into your manuscripts or download into a format compatible with your bibliographic reference manager software.

When viewing an Entrez search results page, each result summary will now include a "Citation" link. (See Figure 1.)

When the Citation link is clicked (see Figure 2), this will open a pop-up window that you can use to copy and paste citations formatted in one of three popular styles: AMA (American Medical Association), MLA (Modern Language Association), or APA (American Psychological Association). In addition, the box includes links at the bottom that can be used to download the citation information in one of three machine-readable formats, which most bibliographic reference management software can import.

The same citation box can also be invoked from within an individual article, either in classic view (with the "Citation" link among the list of Formats, see Figure 3) or in the PubReader view (see Figure 4) by clicking on the citation information immediately below the article title in the banner.

These human-readable styled citations, and machine-readable formats will be available through a public API, and we will be providing more details about that in another announcement, via the PMC-Utils-Announce mailing list. Please subscribe to that list if you are interested in learning more!