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Summary Format

Multiple PubMed citations are displayed by default in the Summary format, which consists of the following:

  • Title of the article: [Show Me]
    Note: Foreign language titles are translated into English and placed within brackets.

  • Author name(s): All authors from the MEDLINE record are displayed. [Show Me]

  • Corporate Author: Identifies the corporate authorship of an article. Corporate names display exactly as they appear in the journal. Note: Citations indexed pre-2000 and some citations indexed in 2000-2001 retain corporate authors at the end of the title field.

  • Source: Provides the journal title abbreviations, date of publication, volume, issue, and page numbers of the article. [Show Me]
    A mouseover of the journal title abbreviation displays the full journal title. [Show Me]
  • Additional notations: Original language (if other than English); Publication Type (if the article is a review or retracted publication); and the notation "No abstract available" (if PubMed does not carry an abstract for the item). Included as appropriate.

  • Tags: [PubMed - as supplied by publisher], [PubMed - in process], [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE], or [PubMed] tags. [Show Me]

  • Identification number: A PubMed Unique Identifier (PMID) is included on each record. [Show Me]

  • Related Articles: [Show Me]

  • Free full text: The availability of free full text is indicated. [Show Me]

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Last reviewed: 28 April 2009
Last updated: 9 April 2009
First published: 20 March 2001
Metadata| Permanence level: Permanent: Dynamic Content