RefCheck: Getting errors while trying to save `web` type citation?

Sometimes, WebCitation API (http://www.webcitation.org/) takes a long time to archive a URL and eventually, the process may hang and halt the RefCheck saving process. The workaround to archive a URL using WebCitation, you can just do the following simple steps and avoid the delay in your Copyediting stage:

1. Copy the URL of your RefCheck page
2. Go to http://www.webcitation.org/archive
3. Insert the URL you wanted to archive in “URL to Archive [url]:" textbox
4. Type in your email address
5. Then, click on `submit` button

 

When WebCitation has completed the archiving process, you will see a page with a Webcite ID and you will receive a confirmation email from WebCitation with Webcite ID.

 

Now, go back to the RefCheck page, you can copy and paste the RefCheck URL from step 1 above.

The format of RefCheck page is http://[Journal_URL]/citations/parse/Article_ID/File_ID/Version_Number

You must replace Journal_URL with the URL of journal of your manuscript

You must replace Article_ID with your article ID

You must replace File_ID with your file ID

You must replace Version_Number with an integer

 

Your RefCheck page should look like

• http://jmir.org/citations/parse/1234/123/1
• http://formative.jmir.org/citations/parse/10000/207657/2

 

Insert the Webcite ID from the email you received in the Webcite ID textbox.

Insert the date when you archived the URL on the Access Date textbox