Post on 26-Jan-2017
Referencing Style
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ByBinod Kumar Yadav
Senior Librarian & Chief
Central LibraryB. P. Koirala Institute of Health sciences, Dharan, Nepal
Terminology
1. Citation A short note recognising a source of information.
Is a practice of referring to the work of others in the text of your own piece of work.
Referring in the text to the source of information used
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Referring in the text to the source of information used i.e. reference
2. Reference A list containing the details only of those works
(sources) cited in the text.
Terminology contd…
3. Bibliography
Greek word ‘bibliographia’ literally “book writing”.
A list of books/documents relevant to a particular
subject.
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subject.
A list of sources not cited in the text but referred to in preparing the work
List of relevant items not necessarily cited in your text.
Order
- Alphabetical by specific subject or author.
Citation & Reference
Citation Reference
- Citing is when you refer in the - Referencing is where you create
text to the source of information a list of the source used.
- Cited in the text - Appears at the end of the work.
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Demonstration:
- Numerically ascending - Listed numerically in the same
order order that they have been cited
or in the text
text (author-date system) or
Alphabetical order by author surname
with date
Citation & Reference contd..
Punctuation marks and space are very important in the reference and citation.
Should be followed the preferred style consistently.
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Should be followed the preferred style consistently.
Refer to notes/instruction for author of the specific journal/document
Referencing Style
The Vancouver system – used in medical and scientific journal
The Harvard system
Chicago manual of style
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American Psychological Association (APA)- Psychology,
education and other social sciences
American Medical Association (AMA) – Medicine &
biological sciences
Modern Language Association (MLA)- literature & arts
Referencing Style contd..
Why do we need reference?
To give credit to the ideas/works of other authors.
To allow others (readers) to find the original sources
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To allow others (readers) to find the original sources
easily (cited reference)
To make the work informative. (Quality)
To get recognition & authentication of the work.
To address the issue of plagiarism
Referencing Style contd..
Plagiarism
Examples:
the verbatim copying of others work without
acknowledgement.
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the close paraphrasing of others work by simply
changing a few words of altering the order of
presentation.
the unacknowledged quotation of phrases.
Referencing Style contd..
Elements in the reference list
1. Author
2. Title of document
3. Date ( year of publication)
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3. Date ( year of publication)
4. place of publication
5. Edition
6. Periodicity (volume/ issue/ part number)
7. Series
Referencing Style contd..
Sources of Information
1. Book
2. Journal
3. Newspaper / magazine
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3. Newspaper / magazine
4. Conference paper/proceedings
5. Annual report
6. Institutional / Government publication
7. Electronic sources- Website, CD-ROM, Databases
8. Theses/ Reports/ unpublished works
Referencing Style contd..
Format of book in various system
Harvard: surname, initial/first name., year. Title in italics. Edition.
Place of publication:publisher.
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Chicago: surname, initial/first name. year. Title in italics. Edition.
Place of publication:publisher.
Vancouver: surname initials. Title. Edition. Place of
publication: publisher; year.
Referencing Style contd..
Format of book in various system
APA: Surname, initial. (year). Title. Edition. Place: Publisher.
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AMA: Surname initial. Title. Edition. Place: publisher; year.
MLA : surname, forename. Title. Edition. Place: publisher, year.
Referencing Style contd..
Format of journal in various system
Harvard: Surname, initials., Year.Title of article. Journal name
- italicised, volume number( issue number), pp. pages.
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Chicago: surname, initial/first name. year. Title of article. Title of
journal. Volume number (issue number): pages.
Vancouver: surname initials. Title of article. Title of journal in
abbreviated date/year;volume(issue):pages.
Software enhanced SystemSoftware enhanced System
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Managing References :Mendeley
Mendeley is free academic software (Win, Mac & Linux) to manage, share, read, annotate and cite your research papers...
...and a research network to manage your papers online, discover research trends and statistics, and to connect to like-minded researchers.
Problem statement…
Your paperarticlearticlearticlearticle
Your topic:
citations
reference list/bibliography
• Lots of typing• Lost references• Mistakes
bookbook
conference paperconference paperconference paper
citations
Use a reference management tool!
Your article
articlearticlearticlearticle
citations
bookbook
conference paperconference paperconference paper
Mendeley,Zotero
EndNote Etc.
reference list/bibliography
Reference management softwares
• Tools that help scholars to create and manage their lists of references for research projects.
• Most tools are designed to organize citations into specific • Most tools are designed to organize citations into specific formats for the preparation of manuscripts and bibliographies.
• Many search tools provide ways to download references into reference management tools.
What is Mendeley?What is Mendeley?
Answer, please.
Syncs Desktop & Web applications
Desktop – a free academic software to manage, share, read, annotate and cite your research papers
Web - a research network to manage your papers online, discover research trends and statistics, and to connect to like-minded researchers
This is the Web version of Mendeley which is used to manage your papers online.
Main menu or Function menu
My Library/ Collections
References
Collections
References
This is the Desktop version of Mendeley which is used to manage, annotate and cite your research papers offline.
Collections
Filters
Reference details
Remember 1
1. Open your preferred web browser (IE, Firefox, Chrome, etc.)
2. Go to the website: www.mendeley.com
3. Sign up for an account and download the Mendeley Desktop.
4. Verify your account. Open the email address that you
use during the sign up/registration.
Sign up with facebook
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Creating your Mendeley Library
There are several ways:• Search references within the Mendeley website • Add a PDF• Add a folder of PDFs• Drag and drop PDFs in Mendeley Desktop
Import/export to and from other reference • Import/export to and from other reference management software
• Add reference manually • Watch folders to automatically add PDFs to
Mendeley Desktop• One-click Web Importer
Mendeley Desktop
Click & Search
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Click
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Save references Save references to libraryto library
Sync Library feature from Mendeley Desktop. By enabling this feature you are able to access your PDF files in your Mendeley Web library.
In Mendeley Desktop, click Add Documents, browse to the location of the pdf and click the Open button.
Click Add Folder, browse to the location of the folder. Then click the OK button.
Export and Import to and from other reference management software
Add Entry manually
Use Watch folders to automatically add PDFs to Mendeley Desktop.
When you place a document in a watched folder, it will be automatically added to Mendeley
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Web Importer helps to import references and
documents from a wide range of academic databases with a single click.
In addition to this it lets you save a snapshot of any webpage you are viewing.
To install it, click Tools – Install Web Importer.
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The Web Importer can import documents from different sites including PubMed.
40In this example, we will use the Web Importer to import documents from PubMed.We will do a search in PubMed, then go to Favorites (IE) or Bookmarks (Firefox & Chrome) and click Save to Mendeley.Thenclick save all or relevant pdf/Document.
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Managing your documents and references
Check duplicates and merge duplicate author names, tags, or publications
Documents can be marked read/unread Documents can be marked read/unread
Search as you type
Annotate PDFs
File Organizer
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Occasionally when you are importing references into Mendeley Desktop, they can become duplicated.
We can find duplicates by selecting the Tools menu, and clicking the Check for Duplicates option. Then click confirm merge.
Unread
Read
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Documents can be marked read/unread.
Favorite
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We can mark your favorite documents with the star icon. Simply click to star, and click again to un-star. All favoritedocuments will appear in the Favorites Folder, which can refer back to them with one click.
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Search as you type.
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Annotate PDFs.Open a PDF in Mendeley's PDF viewer by clicking on the pdf icon.Add highlights and notes by clicking on the Highlight Text or Add Note buttons on the menu.
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Mendeley Desktop’s File Organizercan automatically rename your PDFs and file them in a clear folder structure.
Tools - Options - File Organizer tab
Citing references
Word and OpenOffice plug-in
How to cite references?
How to insert bibliography?
To be able to cite a document, generate a bibliography, or manually edit any entry,We should install the Word and OpenOffice plug-inin Mendeley Desktop.in Mendeley Desktop.
Go to Tools – Install MS Word Plugin.
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To insert citation, put the cursor where you want the citation inserted.
Click Insert Citation button then click Go to Mendeley.
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Select the article, then click Cite icon
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Optional : Type keywords (i.e., author, title or year) in the search box after clicking Insert Citation (instead of clicking Go to Mendeley) .Then, click the corresponding article to insert the citation.
To insert the bibliography, put the cursor where you want the bibliography inserted.
Then click Insert Bibliography and all the cited references will be added to your paper.
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cited references will be added to your paper.
To insert the bibliography, put the cursor where you want the bibliography inserted.
Then click Insert Bibliography and all the cited references will be added to your paper.
Sharing Documents and References (cont.)
• How to create a group
• Adding members and documents
• Using groups
We can create a group by clicking We can create a group by clicking on Create Group.
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In this example, we will create a group named Dialysis with group description –Medical professionals and click Create Group.
Sharing Documents and References (cont.)
Three types of groups:
• Private Groups – These are invite-only groups whose content will only be visible to members of the group. members of the group.
• Public Invite-only Groups – These are groups which are visible to anyone, but only members can contribute to them.
• Public Open Groups – These are groups anyone may join and contribute to.
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We can view the documents of a group by going to the Documents tab.
To Add Documents, go to the group and click on Add documents in the top bar or simply drag and drop documents to the group (either from your Mendeley folders, or from anywhere else on your computer).
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The Overview tab shows a summary of what has happened in your Group.
This is the end of Module 5.2
Thank you for your patience
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