Talk:Kawasaki disease

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Is anyone able to add a pathology section? The disease is explained and discussed but the underlying mechanism isn't mentioned.

The Treatment is repeated in the Prognosis. Suggest removing the final line from the prognosis section. Kilbosh 14:24, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

I clarified the prevalence of coronary artery aneurysms. Can someone show me how to reference the source? It is in Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2006 Mar;25(3):245-9. Pkoetters 05:48, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

• Two aspects here - firstly if the item is a footnote (i.e. to verify or expand on a specific fact within the article, vs source for the whole article which would be a reference) need place it into a footnote section with forward and back links to relevant location in the text. There are several methods for this, latest being metawiki's cite.php system and described at WP:Footnotes that encloses a citation within <ref> details </ref> tags up in the text (and <references/> in the Footnotes section to list out the items)

  Hence at relevant point in text (after punctuation) insert:
  <ref>Author Title Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2006 Mar;25(3):245-9</ref>

• Secondly is how to format the citation details themselves. Other than also needing authors and a title, this can be left as plain text as above, manually formated with single-quotes used to italicise the journal ''this'' = this, or bold the issue number '''that''' = that. Alternatively there are various citation templates to format and structure details for you, in this example we need a journal citation so see Template:cite journal.

  Hence: {{cite journal | author=AUTHOR | title=TITLE | journal=Pediatr Infect Dis J | year=2006 | month=Mar | volume=25 | issue=3 | pages=245-9 }}

  Gives: AUTHOR (Mar 2006). "TITLE". Pediatr Infect Dis J 25 (3): 245-9. 

• So to combine footnotes and citation templates: <ref>{{cite journal | ...... }}</ref> and under Footnotes section header rememember to have a <references/>
• Finally if you can locate on PubMed the article's abstract number, add an additional id=PMID ####### parameter to create a link to it, e.g. PMID 123456. Very useful for all of this is Diberri's tool (http://diberri.dyndns.org/wikipedia/templates/) that takes a PubMed abstract number and autogenerates the cite journal template markup which can then be copied & pasted into wikipedia, e.g. see this example.

• For your example, needs author(s) name and the paper's title, then is it a reference for the article as a whole, or a footnote to a specific statement. Please do feel free to ask any questions :-) David Ruben ^Talk 13:01, 10 August 2006 (UTC)