Field Code Tags for Medical Databases

 

PubMed search tags & field qualifiers

 

Affiliation [AD]

MeSH Subheadings [SH]

Article Identifier [AID]

MeSH Terms [MH]

All Fields [ALL]

NLM Unique ID [JID]

Author [AU]

Other Term [OT]

Corporate Author [CN]

Pagination [PG]

EC/RN Number [RN]

Personal Name as Subject [PS]

Entrez Date [EDAT]

Pharmacological Action MeSH Terms [PA]

Filter [FILTER]

Place of Publication [PL]

First Author Name [1AU]

Publication Date [DP]

Full Author Name [FAU]

Publication Type [PT]

Full Investigator Name [FIR]

Secondary Source ID [SI]

Grant Number [GR]

Subset [SB]

Investigator [IR]

Substance Name [NM]

Issue [IP]

Text Words [TW]

Journal Title [TA]

Title [TI]

Language [LA]

Title/Abstract [TIAB]

Last Author [LASTAU]

Transliterated Title [TT]

Location ID [LID]

UID [PMID]

MeSH Date [MHDA]

Volume [VI]

MeSH Major Topic [MAJR]

 

 

 

TOXLINE field tags

 

Title [ti]

Abstract [ab]

MeSH Heading [mh] and Keyword [kw] are interchangeable.

CAS Registry Number [rn] 

Author - To retrieve authors use the author limits function.

Year of Publication [yr]

Language [la] - Enter the first three characters of a language

TOXLINE Unique ID [DOCNO] - The tag must be in upper case.

 

 

EMBASE

 

Field

Code

Example

Abbreviated Journal Title

ta

'am j med sci':ta

Abstract

ab

'free form text':ab

Accession Number

an

‘1998265323’:an

Article Title

ti

'chronic asthma':ti

Author Name

au

'smith a b':au

Author Address

ad

'new york':ad

CAS Registry Number

rn

'54 04 6':rn

Citation

ct

physics:ct

CODEN

cd

APTHE:cd

Country of Author

ca

Spain:ca

Country of Journal

cy

'united states':cy

Device Manufacturer

df

Baxter:df

Device Trade Name

dn

Dianeal:dn

(Drug/Medical) Index Term

de

cancer:de

Drug Manufacturer

mn

Merck:mn

Drug Trade Name

tn

Afrin:tn

EMBASE Classification

cl

‘033’:cl

ISSN

is

‘0034-9887’:is

Journal Title

jt

'cell biology':jt

Language of Article

la

English:la

Molecular Sequence Number

ms

AF334781:ms

Publication Type

it

review:it