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BIOS 090 Biodiversity in a Changing Earth Fall 2022

Directions for Citing Your Work

Use the APA (American Psychological Association) style.

See the .gif about ZoteroBiB immediately below. There's also another box below it with more details that have some videos.

Then below it are some tutorials about Zoterobib. 

Zotero Bib 1

No tool is ever perfect and you should always check a citation for accuracy, but this will help take the guesswork out of constructing citations. The demo below will show how Zoterobib works. Below it is a youtube if you need more details.

 

 

You can also use ZoteroBib to generate in-text citations using the icon outlined in purple:

 

This provides some details about using ZoteroBib.

ZoteroBib 2

You can use ZoteroBib to create a list of citations, for a bibliography at the end of a paper, in a style that you select from "10,000 +" styles.

This .gif at James Madison University provides a quick overview of how to create a list of citations and then paste into your paper. 

For some more details about using ZoteroBib, see this video:

We have seen how to create a bibliography to put at the end of your paper. For details about doing an in-text citation, in which you cite a brief reference to a citation within the text of your paper, which points to the full citation in the bilbliography at the end of your paper, see this tutorial: NOTE: change the citation style if this feature does not work. This video is from the Royal College of Nursing: