PMCID

lsepeta
I need to add PMCID for every reference possible for a grant application. Is there an easy way to update the bibliography via Zotero in order to include this information?
  • adamsmith
    do you have the PMCID in Zotero in the extra field? If so, use the NLM grant style from the repository and it will be included automatically.

    But there's no way to update existing Zotero entries with a PMCID, no.
  • lsepeta
    No I see PMIDs there, but no PMCIDs. Can I add those myself to "Extra" and have them show up in the Bibliography.
  • adamsmith
    If you have
    PMID: 1234567
    PMCID: PMC12345
    in the Extra field this will work correctly. You can see an example if you add by identifier with this PMID: 24055765
  • lsepeta
    Great, thank you. One quick thing: I am now using the NLM grant style, as you suggested, but, as a result, my citations are now bracketed instead of superscript. For lots of reasons (space, etc) I need them to be superscript. Can I change that?
  • adamsmith
    you need to modify the style, but it's trivially easy:
    See this in general:
    https://www.zotero.org/support/dev/citation_styles/style_editing_step-by-step

    specifically, find
    <layout prefix="(" suffix=")" delimiter=",">
    <text variable="citation-number"/>
    </layout>

    change to

    <layout vertical-align="sup" delimiter=",">
    <text variable="citation-number"/>
    </layout>

    see the notes on changing stylename and ID in the first link.
  • lsepeta
    It works! Thanks so much for your help.
    -Leigh
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