get_publication: A function to get publications for sites or datasets in the...
In neotoma: Access to the Neotoma Paleoecological Database Through R

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The function takes the parameters, defined by the user, and returns a table with publication information from the Neotoma Paleoecological Database.

1	get_publication(x, contactid, datasetid, author, pubtype, year, search)

`x`	Numeric Publication ID value, either from `get_dataset` or known.
`contactid`	Numeric Contact ID value, either from `get_dataset` or `get_contact`
`datasetid`	Numeric Dataset ID, known or from `get_dataset`
`author`	Character string for full or partial author's name. Can include wildcards such as 'Smit*' for all names beginning with 'Smit'.
`pubtype`	Character string, one of eleven allowable types, see `get_table`. For a list of allowed types run `get_table("PublicationTypes")`.
`year`	Numeric publication year.
`search`	A character string to search for within the article citation.

A list is returned with two data frame components:

`meta`	A single row with Publication ID, type, year of publication and full citation.
`Authors`	`data.frame` of author names, order and IDs, can be of variable length.

Simon J. Goring simon.j.goring@gmail.com

Neotoma Project Website: http://www.neotomadb.org API Reference: http://api.neotomadb.org/doc/resources/contacts

## Not run: 
#  To find all publications from 1998:
year.cont <- get_publication(year = 1998)

# To find all data contributors who have the last name "Smith"
smith.cont <- get_publication(author = 'Smith')

## End(Not run)