Talk:Kawasaki disease
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The Treatment is repeated in the Prognosis. Suggest removing the final line from the prognosis section. Kilbosh 14:24, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
I clarified the prevalence of coronary artery aneurysms. Can someone show me how to reference the source? It is in Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2006 Mar;25(3):245-9. Pkoetters 05:48, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
- Two aspects here - firstly if the item is a footnote (i.e. to verify or expand on a specific fact within the article, vs source for the whole article which would be a reference) need place it into a footnote section with forward and back links to relevant location in the text. There are several methods for this, latest being metawiki's cite.php system and described at WP:Footnotes that encloses a citation within <ref> details </ref> tags up in the text (and <references/> in the Footnotes section to list out the items)
- Hence at relevant point in text (after punctuation) insert:
<ref>Author Title Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2006 Mar;25(3):245-9</ref>
- Hence at relevant point in text (after punctuation) insert:
- Secondly is how to format the citation details themselves. Other than also needing authors and a title, this can be left as plain text as above, manually formated with single-quotes used to italicise the journal ''this'' = this, or bold the issue number '''that''' = that. Alternatively there are various citation templates to format and structure details for you, in this example we need a journal citation so see Template:cite journal.
- Hence: {{cite journal | author=AUTHOR | title=TITLE | journal=Pediatr Infect Dis J | year=2006 | month=Mar | volume=25 | issue=3 | pages=245-9 }}
- Gives: AUTHOR (Mar 2006). "TITLE". Pediatr Infect Dis J 25 (3): 245-9.
- So to combine footnotes and citation templates: <ref>{{cite journal | ...... }}</ref> and under Footnotes section header rememember to have a <references/>
- Finally if you can locate on PubMed the article's abstract number, add an additional id=PMID ####### parameter to create a link to it, e.g. PMID 123456. Very useful for all of this is Diberri's tool (http://diberri.dyndns.org/wikipedia/templates/) that takes a PubMed abstract number and autogenerates the cite journal template markup which can then be copied & pasted into wikipedia, e.g. see this example.
- For your example, needs author(s) name and the paper's title, then is it a reference for the article as a whole, or a footnote to a specific statement. Please do feel free to ask any questions :-) David Ruben Talk 13:01, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
