REF2PMID(1)

💖 REF2PMID(1) 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the ref2pmid page from the NCBI Entrez Direct User's Manual ✨ it's section 1, she's a whole command, and she's here to make your citations make sense 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

ref2pmid — match PubMed citations in Reference Index XML 🎀

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

ref2pmid [-options confirm|verbose|fast|slow|exact ...]

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So here's the vibe, bestie: ref2pmid reads one or more Reference Index XML documents from standard input 📥, tries to resolve those citations against a local PubMed archive 🗂️, and then writes the correspondingly augmented XML right out to standard output 📤. no cap.

and like, the tea is that it's literally just shorthand for transmute -r2p 💅 icon behaviour honestly.

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

See transmute(1). 👑

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• asn2ref(1)
• archive-pubmed(1)
• cit2pmid(1)
• csv2xml(1)
• transmute(1)

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NCBI • 2025-05-26 — and that's the whole page bestie, mwah 💋 shoutout to NCBI for the drop, this one's dated 2025-05-26 and it ate, periodt 💖✨🎀