NAME

       ecitmatch - look up a citation's PubMed ID (DEPRECATED)

SYNOPSIS

       ecitmatch  (edirect -citmatch) [-help] [-journal title] [-year year] [-volume N] [-page N]
       [-author name]

DESCRIPTION

       Note: ecitmatch will not appear in future releases of NCBI Entrez Direct.

       ecitmatch prints (to standard output)  the  numeric  PubMed  identifier  for  a  specified
       article.  If there were multiple matches, it substitutes a parenthesized expression of the
       form (n citations).  If there were no matches, it prints nothing at all.

OPTIONS

       -help  Print a summary of available options.

       -journal title
              Match only articles whose journal has the given title (which may be specified as  a
              standard abbreviation).

       -year year
              Match only articles published in the given year.

       -volume N
              Match only articles with the given volume number.

       -page N
              Match only articles starting on the given page number.

       -author name
              Match  only  articles  with  the  given  author  name  (may  be partial; may not be
              repeated).

SEE ALSO

       edirect(1).