Dear all, I am a huge fan of Paperpile, which I use mostly in combination with Google Doc.
I have a question regarding the format of citations (the style), which I do not know how to implement myself: long story short, I would like each paper with a Pubmed ID available to be referenced in the format [PMID 123555].
Is there any way to achieve this?
Welcome to our forum, @Giulio, and thanks for the nice feedback! The only style I know includes PMIDs is National Library of Medicine (grant proposals with PMCID/PMID):
The alternative would be to edit the style you need directly from online repository CSL (where we get our styles from) using their online editor, available at editor.citationstyles.org. You can then upload the custom CSL file to Paperpile via Settings > Citation styles, making it available for use in GDocs and Word.
Can I choose PMIDs over PMCIDs for citations? I see publications with both PMIDs and PMCIDs (PubMed), but sometimes Paperpile generates citations with PMCIDs instead of PMIDs.
Whether Paperpile includes the PMCID or the PMID depends on the rules of the selected citation style, @Xiao_Lei. For example, the National Library of Medicine (grant proposals with PMCID/PMID) shown in the screenshot above requires the PMCID to be added. But if the PMCID reference field in Paperpile is empty, it will add a PMID instead. So if you chose to use that style, one option would be to clear the PMCID identifier from each reference that you wish to cite using the Edit dialog in the web app and to make sure the PMID field for each reference is non-empty. Alternatively, or if you are using another citation style, you could modify it to force it to include PMIDs via editor.citationstyles.org, as Vicente explained above.
