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BIOS 098 Human Genomes, Ancestry, and Health Spring 2024

Copy of BIOS 296: Evolution and Ecology of Infectious Diseases Spring Semester 2024

STEPS FOR CITING YOUR SOURCES

Below are steps for citing your sources in National Library of Medicine  style. (Analogous steps hold for other styles as well.)

Proper citing of your sources can help you avoid plagiarism. Visit the Avoiding Plagiarism guide!

Using Zoterobib to create a full citation reference

Use this citation generator to create citations in National Library of Medicine style:

Watch the .gif demo below, then watch the Youtube immediately below it. When using ZoteroBib, select the National Library of Medicine style.

Journal Citation Style -- NLM

Below is an example of a citation style is the National Library of Medicine style. 

The citation example below is for this article. Look at this article, then compare to the example below. When you cite journal articles sources for your work in the class, render them in the same style as you see below. 

 Image above is from Citing Medicine: The NLM Style Guide for Authors, Editors, and Publishers [Internet]. 2nd edition.

See  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK7282/pdf/Bookshelf_NBK7282.pdf

*Use this site to find how to abbreviate the journal that you are citing.

See Citing Medicine2nd edition to see how to reference not just journals, but also websites, books, newspapers and other resources. Note: from this guide: "Journals are a particular type of periodical. These same rules and examples can be used for magazines and other types of periodicals."  

If you do a presentation, put citations either at the bottom of the slide(s) or batched at the end of the Powerpoint.

In-text citations

When you write a paper, you will need not just a reference list, but also in-text references. These are citations within the text of the paper that point to the list of references at the end of your paper.

ZoteroBib allows for in-text citations. Below is a tutorial (Royal College of Nursing) about how this works. Make sure you have selected National Library of Medicine style!

 


IN-TEXT CITATIONS

The NLM guide above says:

"References are presented in two ways in medical publications. At the end of a journal article, book, or book chapter, all of the references that contributed to the work are presented in a list called references, end references, literature cited, or bibliography. Within the text of a publication, individual references are presented in an abbreviated format that refers back to the list. These abbreviated references within the text are called "in-text references."

For the purpose of this assignment, use the "name year" in-text citation style mentioned here.

Make sure your reference list, at the bottom of your paper, has "Items in order alphabetically by author’s last name, then year of publication".