PMA2APA(1)

💖 PMA2APA(1) 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the NCBI Entrez Direct User's Manual — this is the page for pma2apa, and honestly? she's a little icon. ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

pma2apa — convert PubmedArticle XML to APA-format citation 🎀

like. she takes your chunky XML and turns it into a cute lil APA citation. it's giving glow-up. 💅

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

pma2apa [[-]xml|[-]apa] [[-]ascii]

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so here's the tea, bestie: pma2apa reads one or more PubmedArticle XML documents from standard input 📥 and writes the corresponding APA-format citation text to standard output 📤.

that's it. that's the whole job. and she does it flawlessly, no cap. 👑

👑 OPTIONS 👑

• [-]xml — yield the intermediate XML format. like, the halfway-point version. not fully dressed yet, still getting ready. 🧖
• [-]apa — fully format it. this one's the default, and she's the main character fr fr. 🌟
• [-]ascii — strip off the Unicode accents. bye bye é, à, ü — it's plain-ASCII o'clock. 🪄

ngl the brackets around the option names are optional — that's literally why they're in brackets. iykyk. 💅

🫶 SEE ALSO 🫶

efetch(1), pma2pme(1), transmute(1), xfetch(1), xtract(1)

the whole friend group!! go say hi. 🌈

and that's the page, bestie — brought to you by NCBI, dated 2025-05-26. mwah. 💖 go cite something gorgeous. 🦋✨🎀