Add class on wrapper?

Although I’m not sure I understand the wrapper you actually want (could you post some example HTML?), I think i understand what you want the plugin to do, but to make sure…

There are two problems:
1) the wrap as it currently is used generates <$wrap>[list of refs]</$wrap>, so anything more complex than a single HTML tag will get messed up when it closes. So we really need a separate open and close value for $wrap

2) you’d also like to use css to style the references themselves by adding styles to the li tags.

Is that right? These seem like good ideas that I should implement in the next version. It seems like there are several options for the solution listed in order of how easy they would be to implement.

1) The simplest is for me to just add standard classnames to wrap and li which would allow you to select them in your css for your theme
2) More complicated would be to add options to cover possible layouts
3) Or perhaps I could add a more serious template building option to the admin pages.

These are not mutually exclusive. What do you think?

Thank you for the quick reply!
Yes, basically what I would like to do is to be able to add styling to my ol,ul and li without changing the tag for the entire website.

Personally, I use your plugin in 2 different ways, I have 1) queries that consist of multiple papers or multiple queries and 2) queries that consist of only one paper. I need a separate style for each so, one classname wouldn’t work perfectly for me but I could certainly use it for only one of the cases. More specifically, for (1) I need numbered lists and for (2) I want an inline list with no bullets/numbers.

Any solution that would allow different styling options would work for me. For example, [pmid-refs key=smith class=inline-ol] or [pmid-refs key=smith styling=”font-size:12pt;”] or as you suggested 2 different templates defined in the admin pages!

By the way, note that when I use 2 different shortcodes sequentially I can’t use the ol tag because the numbers don’t get incremented properly. For example:
[pmid-refs key=smith]
[pmid-refs key=anderson]

Will produce 2 consecutive lists that will look like:
1. smith 1
2. smith 2
1. anderson 1

While I would like something like
1. smith 1
2. smith 2
3. anderson 1

I can’t really avoid the sequential shortcodes because some of my queries return more than 20 papers (that’s still the limit, right?). To avoid this I use the ul tag. But if you could remove the 20 results limit or add the start attribute on ol that would be great too!

You should be able to increase the limit past 20 in the current version. Start a new thread if that is not working!

I’ll see what I can do about the layout options.

Oops, sorry, I missed the past 20 update!
Thank you for considering the layout options!