Citations

You need to use appropriate methods for finding information effectively and efficiently.
Being able to recognise items on reading lists is necessary before you can decide on the best method of locating material.

Reading Lists

In this section you'll learn how to use a reading list to find recommended books, book chapters, and journal articles. You can reasonably expect that every item on a reading list will be in the Barr Smith Library or MyUni.

Citations (also called references) are brief descriptions of books, chapters, and journal articles that provide enough information for you to actually find them.

 In the figure below are 4 citations. There are 3 book citations including a citation to a chapter in an edited book, and one citation to a journal article.

Graphics in this tutorial will appear with red borders. You won't be able to interact with these graphics.

You'll find various citation styles used in different bibliographies and reading lists.

Identifying Citations to Books
You can identify a citation to a book by the presence of:

          author(s) or editor(s), date,  book title,
         publisher, and place of publication.

For example:

Chapter in a book

You can identify a citation to a chapter in a book by the presence of the word 'in'
before the editor(s) of the book, or sometimes before the title of the book.

It is important to identify citations to chapters.
When you want a chapter, you'll need to search in The Catalogue or Summon for
the book containing the chapter,
not the chapter itself.
Using the example above, you would search The Catalogue or Summon for the book title
Evolution in health and disease
not the chapter title.

Exceptions
The only exceptions are some book chapters on Faculty reading lists.
These chapters may be scanned and included in MyUni. Your lecturers will tell you about any of these chapters.

Summon may be able to find book chapters in electronic books.
Summon is a 'discovery tool' that can search the catalogue, and many of the library's electronic resources.

Citing References

Research Skill Development includes understanding how to use the work of others in your assignments and your responsibilities under the law .

In your course you'll learn how to find and present evidence related to your discipline.
The University's Centre for Learning and Professional Development has a useful web site that will help you with academic writing, and make sure that you avoid plagiarism.
It's important to look at this site so that you can present assignments in an appropriate academic style.

Plagiarism for Students
Right click on the link then click on Open in New Window or New Tab.
You can also look at the somewhat cheesy, but entertaining YouTube video Et Plagieringseventyr from the University of Bergen (in Norwegian with English subtitles. Click the CC button if you can't see the subtitles)

At this point you may be asked for a username and password.
Your username is in the format "axxxxxxx"
where xxxxxxx is the 7 digits that form your student number.
Your beginning password is on your enrolment receipt.
When you have finished looking at these sites close the windows and return to this site.

Citation Styles
The Faculty of Health Sciences will adopt an author date citation style from CLPD from 2011 onwards.

Delete this stuff below for 2012.

There are many citation styles that can be used for producing a list of references at the end of each of your assignments. Citations must include a note in the text of your assignment that refers readers to the bibliography, or list of citations at the end.
You should always follow the citation style recommended by your University School or Discipline. If your School or Discipline doesn't recommended a style, you should choose an internationally accepted style.
Click on the link to see a list of citation styles compiled by B. Davis Schwartz Memorial Library, Long Island University that will show you how to format a bibliography.

Vancouver Citation System
Students in the Faculty of Health Sciences are often told to use the Vancouver Citation system.
Click on the link to find a guide to using Vancouver style (from Monash University).

Summary
You should now know how to:

• distinguish a citation to a book, from a citation to a chapter in a book.
• identify the parts of a citation (author, title, etc.).
• identify which part of a chapter citation would be searched in the Library catalogue or Summon.
• find a citation style that's acceptable to your discipline.

Now logon to MyUni to
Answer Question 1 from the Library Health Sciences Tutorial
Click on the link below to open MyUni in a new window.

If you are a BDS student,
Click on the course
Dental Science and Practice

If you are a BOH student,
Click on the course
Library Skills Questions BOH I 2011

If you are an MBBS student,
Click on the course
MBBS Health Sciences Tutorial Questions 2011

For all students
Next click on Assignments.

Click on BDS Library Tutorial Questions
then
Health Sciences Library Tutorial Questions.
Click on Begin.

 

Click on Question 1.

Select your answer from those offered.
Click on Save and Submit.

 

Click on OK.

Click on the next OK button in the bottom left.

 

If you get a question wrong, you can try again, but you are likely to get a different question of the same type.
If you have trouble with any question ask Mick Draper for help.

Once you have opened a question make sure you give an answer!!!
If you leave the question without selecting an answer you may be locked out of the question when you try it again later.
Let me know if this happens to you.

Keep track of your result for each question to make sure that you get at least 5 questions right..

Once you have answered the first question return to this screen to continue the tutorial.

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