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Citation Management Concepts and Skills for Digital Research John Pell

Assistant ProfessorHunter College Libraries

+Overview

Discussion of CitationsTechnologies for Citation Management

Applying Citation Management with RefWorks

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Citations

+Citations

What does “citation” mean to you? What kind of information might be included in a

citation? What might a citation look like? Why might a citation be significant? What problems may be involved in using

citations?

Bonus Question: can you define any of the following terms and how they may relate to citations in a digital environment: XML, URL, DOI, metadata?

+Some Citation Formats

American Psychological Association (APA) Elmborg, J. (2006). Critical information literacy: Implications

for instructional practice. The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 32(2), 192–199.

American Medical Association (AMA) 1. Elmborg J. Critical information literacy: Implications for

instructional practice. The Journal of Academic Librarianship. 2006;32(2):192–199.

Modern Language Association (MLA) Elmborg, J. “Critical Information Literacy: Implications for

Instructional Practice.” The Journal of Academic Librarianship 32.2 (2006): 192–199.

+Citations as Tools for Evaluating Information

AUTHOR: A person trained an experienced in the topic they are writing about.

TITLE: Clearly relates to the subject of the article that cited it.

WHO PUBLISHED IT: A journal devoted to the subject of the article that rigorously screens and edits submissions.

WHEN IT WAS PUBLISHED: at a time when knowledge of the subject was well-developed

WHERE CAN YOU FIND IT: Specific pages of a specific issue published on a specific date.

AUTHOR: Anonymous

TITLE: Does not relate to subject of the article citing it.

WHO PUBLISHED IT: Self-published blog

WHEN IT WAS PUBLISHED: Before anything significant was known about the subject.

WHERE CAN YOU FIND IT: URL that may or may not work 3 months from now.

CITATION 1 CITATION 2

+Problems involved with using citations

What if we need to change to a different format?

What if we are using a numbered format and we need to change the order of our citations?

What if we want to use some of the same citations in a different paper?

+Technologies for Citation ManagementBuilding personal databases for your research and writing

+Some Technologies for Citation Management

EndNote

Mendeley

Microsoft Word

RefWorks

Zotero

+Evaluating Technologies for Citation Management

How much does it cost?

How much of it needs to be installed on your computer?

How can you access your data?

How can you share your data?

How does it work with other technology that you use for research and writing?

+RefWorks

Free to Hunter Affiliates.

$100/year for individual license

Mainly Web-based

Optional plug-ins enhance citation capturing and word processing

Access with a web browser and an internet connection

Share with other RefWorks users through shared folders.

Optimized for IE, integrates with Word, citation capture is often broken.

+Applying Citation Management with RefWorksBuilding personal databases for your research and writing

+RefWorks Exercises

Create a RefWorks account Understand how to login off-campus using the RefWorks

group code for Hunter: RWHuntC

Import citations for books from your syllabus into your refworks database

Insert citations from your refworks database into a word document

Format the word document according to APA style rules, save a copy and email it to John Pell

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