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Function for fetching a pubmed citation in google sheets
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/** | |
* Returns formatted pubmed citation. | |
* | |
* @param {id} Pubmed identifier. | |
* @return Formatted pubmed citation. | |
* @customfunction | |
*/ | |
function pubmed(id) { | |
// Special thanks to http://www.alexhadik.com/blog/2014/6/12/create-pubmed-citations-automatically-using-pubmed-api | |
var content = UrlFetchApp.fetch("http://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/esummary.fcgi?db=pubmed&id=" + id + "&retmode=json") | |
summary = JSON.parse(content) | |
var title = summary.result[id].title; | |
var journal = summary.result[id].fulljournalname; | |
var volume = summary.result[id].volume; | |
var issue = summary.result[id].issue; | |
var citation = ""; | |
var pub_date = summary.result[id].pubdate; | |
var pages = summary.result[id].pages; | |
var authors = ""; | |
for(author in summary.result[id].authors){ | |
authors+=summary.result[id].authors[author].name+', '; | |
} | |
var citation = "<p><strong>" + title + "</strong><br />" + | |
authors + "<br />" + | |
"(" + pub_date + ") <em>" + journal + "</em> " + | |
volume + " (" + issue + ") " + pages + "</p>"; | |
return citation | |
} | |
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