How-to: Cite your Article's PubMed Central Compliance

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An article available in PubMed Central could be cited like this:

    Dalal Y, Furuyama T, Vermaak D, Henikoff S. 2007. "Inaugural Article: Structure, dynamics, and evolution of centromeric nucleosomes". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 104(41): 15974-15981. PMCID: PMC1993840

An article that is not in PubMed Central, but which is available open access from the publisher could be cited like this:

    Bernstein ID, Eary JF, Badger CC, Press OW, Appelbaum FR, Martin PJ, Krohn KA, Nelp WB, Porter B, Fisher D, et al. Feb 1, 1990. "High dose radiolabeled antibody therapy of lymphoma". Cancer Research, 50(3 Suppl): 1017s-1021s. http://cancerres.aacrjournals.org/cgi/reprint/50/3_Supplement/1017s

If an article is published by a PubMed Central 'direct deposit' journal, but does not yet have a PMCID, you may cite it like this, without the ID number:

    Marcondes AM, Mhyre AJ, Stirewalt DL, Kim S-H, Dinarello CA, Deeg HJ 2008. "Dysregulation of IL-32 in myelodysplastic syndrome and chronic myelomonocytic leukemia modulates apoptosis and impairs NK function". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 105(8): 2865-2870. PMC Journal - In Process.