User talk:ART Surrogacy Edit

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– the WikiProject Medicine team Jytdog (talk) 12:11, 29 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The note above mentions and links to the three main guidance documents for editing about health --

The note below provides a bit more brief information about sourcing per MEDRS and a concrete explanation on how to format citations from MEDHOW. But there is no substitute for reading the documents.

Thank you for contributing to Wikipedia. Remember that when adding content about health, please only use

1. While editing any article or a wikipage, on the top of the edit window you will see a toolbar which says "cite" click on it
2. Then click on "templates",
3. Choose the most appropriate template and fill in the details beside a magnifying glass followed by clicking said button,
4. If the article is available in Pubmed Central, you have to add the pmc parameter manually -- click on "show additional fields" in the template and you will see the "pmc" field. Please add just the number and don't include "PMC".

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