molecular systems biology -- page number / article number missing

chubukov

Hi

When I import references from MSB, the translator only takes the volume number, and ignores the article number. I understand that this is not exactly the same thing as a page number, but in practice, most citation styles treat the article number exactly the same way as page numbers are treated for physical journals (e.g. even MSB's own citation style). For other online-only journals (e.g. PLoS), the article number seems to be treated exactly as a page number anyway. Can I recommend importing the article number as the page number for MSB also?

Sample article: http://www.nature.com/msb/journal/v2/n1/full/msb4100050.html
And cited by another article in MSB:http://www.nature.com/msb/journal/v6/n1/full/msb201098.html#B9

chubukov

Btw, importing the same article from Pubmed Central gives the correct behavior.

adamsmith

The reason is that the article number is nowhere in their data - it's not in the embedded data in the page header, nor is it in the RIS (the "export citation" feature). I don't think we'll want to scrape it from the page, that's too unreliable.
You can try to see if Nature/MSB is willing to put it in and then we'll either get it automatically or we can add support.