PMID to OSCOLA Citation Converter

Convert a PMID to OSCOLA style format in seconds. Paste any PubMed ID and get a complete OSCOLA citation from NLM metadata. Free, no sign-up.

PMID to OSCOLA Citation Converter

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What is a PMID?

A PMID is the accession number PubMed assigns to every record it indexes – a plain number, often printed as PMID: 31536518 at the foot of an abstract. It is the fastest way to identify a biomedical paper: shorter than a DOI and shown on every PubMed page. Paste a PMID into CiteTools, with or without the PMID: prefix, and we fetch the article’s record from the National Library of Medicine: authors, article title, journal with its official NLM abbreviation, year, volume, issue, and pages. That metadata feeds the same formatter as every other input, so you can render the reference in Vancouver or AMA – the two styles medical journals ask for most – or in APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard, IEEE, or ACS.

How the PMID to OSCOLA conversion works

Copy the PMID from the PubMed record or from the article’s first page.
Paste it in – with or without the PMID: prefix – and CiteTools fetches the NLM metadata.
Copy the citation, or switch to another style with one click.

Example input:

PMID: 31536518

About OSCOLA

Oxford University Standard for Citation of Legal Authorities - used in UK law schools and legal journals.

OSCOLA, the Oxford University Standard for Citation of Legal Authorities, is the footnote system of UK law schools. A bibliography entry gives the surname and the initials, then the title in single quotation marks. The year in round brackets, the volume, the journal, and the first page follow. CiteTools writes a full note and a short note for a source, and never ibid. The short note always reads (n 1), so change the 1 to the number of the note that holds the full citation. It cites books, articles, chapters, and web pages, and leaves cases and legislation to you.

Frequently asked questions

Where is the PMID on a PubMed page?

Under the abstract, in the citation details block – a bare number labeled PMID. It also appears in PubMed URLs: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31536518/ ends with the PMID.

Do I need to type the PMID: prefix?

No. A five to eight digit number on its own, such as 31536518, resolves as a PMID when it is the entire input. PMID: 31536518 and PM31536518 work too, and are the safer choice once the number sits inside other text.

Is the OSCOLA output suitable for journal submission?

The reference is rendered from NLM’s own metadata with the Citation Style Language definition for OSCOLA. Vancouver, AMA, CSE and IEEE print the journal’s NLM title abbreviation, and the other styles print its full name. Read the result against your journal’s instructions before you submit.

PMID to OSCOLA Citation Converter