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Articles

Articles form the encylopedia component of radiopaedia. Unlike a textbook, journal publication or a written encylopaedia, it allows you and other users to keep on modifying and updating as time passes by.

Articles can act as a basic reporting workstation reference or as a leading point to other published journal articles or textbooks as well as selected submitted cases on that topic (through its linked reference list at the bottom or attached case list on the right)

Articles in essence are collaborative works and are about a particular topic, for example; meningioma, lung cancer staging or internal carotid artery. An article doesn't just have a title and content, it needs to have references and attributes that define what it is related to and where is should be listed.

Where a term may relate to multiple articles an article for each instance is required, e.g. the lingula is an anatomical term that refer to a mandibular and pulmonary structure. For more information, see disambiguation.

Title

The title of the article, may seem obvious, but some considerations to consistency are required:

always use sentence case "Transient tachypnoea of the newborn", not "Transient Tachypnoea of the Newborn"
if there is a recognised acronymn, DO NOT entitle "Transient Tachypnoea of the Newborn (TTN)"
- use the full expanded term as the title
- include a synonym for "Title (Acronym)" and "Acronym"
- this example will be called "Transient tachypnoea of the newborn" and have synonyms of "Transient Tachypnoea of the Newborn (TTN)" and "TTN"

Content

Text with internal links to other articles. Although articles vary greatly in length, we are trying to maintain a uniform article structure where possible.

read more about article structure here.

References

It is important for the sources of your information to be cited. Direct references should be made using a superscript citation ¹. In most cases, it looks better if there is a space between the citation and the preceeding work, but no space between it and any following punctuation.

read more about references here.

Attributes

This section contains a number of important properties which each article can have

Section : All articles are automatically listed in the "Encyclopaedia". However, there are other specific areas that the article can be listed under, e.g. "mnemonic" or "classification". Selecting one of these ensures that it is also listed in that section (links immediately below header). An article can belong to more than one section.

System : This identifies the system to which the article relates, e.g. "Chest", "Central nervous system". Many articles will have more than one system.

Tags : These are words or phrases that you think are useful metadata, e.g. Jefferson fracture may have the tags "trauma" "fracture" "cervical spine". Each tag should be comma separated. Tags are clickable allowing linking between similar articles.

read more about tags here.

Synonyms : A particular structure or condition will often be known by a number of different spellings or names. Adding synonyms allows other articles to link to this article via a synonym, e.g. "Fallopian tubes" and "Uterine tubes". Synonyms also allow for alternative spellings, e.g "Thornwaldt cyst" and "Tornwaldt cyst". By checking the box to the right of the synonym you can elect to list the synonym in the encylopaedia or not. There is little point listing "Haemorrhage" and "Hemorrhage" and "Hemorrhages" next to each other, however listing both "Fallopian tubes" and "Uterine tubes" is helpful.