Citation Software for Students Research Writing Workshops

Citation Software for Students Research & Writing Workshops Fall 2005 CSULB Library

Today we will cover • Databases the allow you to format your citations • SFX formatting your citations • Citation Builders • Refworks • Tips for quoting summarizing and using your articles in a paper

Citations • What are they? – Article Title, Author, Journal Title, Volume Number, Issue Number, Page Number, Date Why do we need them? • Style manuals and citation guides • – APA – MLA – Chicago

Citation Makers • Depending upon the size of your paper you have several options • 3 -5 sources use the auto-citation makers or the citation generator • 10 or more sources use Refworks

Databases • What are they? – Databases are collections of articles, book chapters and even websites – They are the FIRST place you go to find articles for your classes – They are usually subject or content specific • Why do we need them? – Without databases you would be flipping thru hundreds of pages of journals without a clue if your topic is in them!

Vendor name vs. Database name VENDOR…. • are the companies we buy products from DATABASES… • are the ones that decide how a database interface will look and any value-added options So look for the vendor name to see if it allows auto citation are the CONTENT • • • Even though the interface will look the same topics will vary • So make sure you pick the database with the right content!

Vendor Products with auto-citation CQ Researcher Proquest CSA

CQ Researcher

Proquest • • Newspapers Genderwatch ABI/Inform Alt-Press watch Dissertations and Theses Online Ethnic Newswatch Historical Los Angeles Times Historical New York Times

Proquest

Select your style manual hit email, print or download

CSA • • • Sociological abstracts Criminal Justice abstracts Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management Eric CSA Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts Social Service Abstracts

CSA

CSA once you select the save, print, email option it asks you what style manual format you want

What do I do if the database doesn’t have auto-citation? Use SFX Citation Capture. – Works with most vendors except for EBSCO and ABC-CLIO – Only works with databases that have SFX in them – Databases it doesn’t work with: Academic Search Elite America History and Life Communications & Mass Media Complete Factiva Lexis Nexis Academic Historical Abstracts Psyc. Info

Find an article… Clicking here will allow you to get to the citation maker

SFX Box Look for the Save Citation option

This page will pop up after you click on the option Select your citation style and hit “GO”

What do I do if the database doesn’t have auto-citation? Use Citation Generators • CSULB Library http: //nike. cecs. csulb. edu/~surf/lobo 2/citationbuilder. php • NCSU Library http: //www. lib. ncsu. edu/lobo 2/using/cite 3 a. php

Refworks • Really cool if you need to write a really long paper or do an annotated bibliography • Not good for short papers unless you are an experienced user (3 -5 sources) • Create your user name and password

Steps for Refworks Before you click on a database check to see if Refworks is compatible 2. Search for your articles 3. Follow the instructions for importing citations into Refworks 4. Open up your Refworks file or Word (with Write n Cite) Lets try: 1. http: //www. csulb. edu/library/eref-index. html

Let’s Use Write N Cite Needs to be downloaded onto your computer • Automatically integrated into Microsoft Word • Allows you to do in-text citations in a variety of styles • • For more info check out: http: //www. refworks. com/refworks/help/Using_Write-N-Cite. htm

Using information Avoiding Plagiarism • Quoting • Summarizing • Paraphrasing • This section is taken from North Carolina State Library Lobo Tutorial

Using Information • The easiest way to avoid plagiarism is to remember that you are giving credit to people that helped you with your research • Your reference list is helping the people that read your paper find the same information you used

Avoiding plagiarism Some common examples of plagiarism are: • copying someone else's words without using quotation marks and citing (giving credit to) the source, • paraphrasing or summarizing someone else's words without citing the source, • quoting someone else's words inaccurately, • restating someone else's original or specialized ideas without citing the source, • misrepresenting someone else's words or ideas, • citing the wrong source, and • pretending someone else's work is your own.

Quoting Quotations (especially lengthy ones) must be accompanied by your own words. In other words, if you use a direct quote that is 50 words long, you should match that with 50 words of your own that include commentary about, analysis of, or reaction to the quotation.

Quoting Insert direct quotes in a variety of ways There are 3 main ways to insert a quotation: • Quote a single word or phrase. EXAMPLE: Baron (1989) writes that punk music "describes the problems and expresses the anger of youth while at the same time offering a critique of the dominant order" (p. 229). • Quote a longer phrase. EXAMPLE: Noting such reflection in punk music, Marcus (1993) writes that it is "a voice that through worry, sarcasm, irony, panic, or humor is manifestly trying to figure things out. It's a distanced voice, anti-naturalistic, almost never direct--the voice of an observer or of one observing oneself. Most strikingly, it is an anonymous voice" (p. 178). • Quote entire sentences or groups of sentences. This option is dangerous. Be careful not to substitute long quotations for your own words and ideas.

Summarizing • Include an in-text citation (Travis 2001) to indicate where the passage you summarized begins and ends. It's also a good idea to add attributive tags to long summaries. Attributive tags can be used to show where a summary begins. Some examples include: Lincoln stated. . . As Mr. Chen suggests. . . Edwin Booth tells readers that. . .

Summarizing • To summarize a passage, read it, lay it aside for awhile, and then record your memory of the passage in your own words. • Be sure to double-check the passage to make sure you have not remembered the author's exact words or misrepresented his/her ideas.

Paraphrasing • A paraphrase is not a condensation of a passage. Paraphrases, unlike summaries, require you to restate all the information in the original source, not just the main idea. A paraphrase leaves no piece of information out. • a paraphrase is not simply choosing a few synonyms and inserting them into the original sentence. Doing that is plagiarism. To paraphrase, you must alter the syntax (word and phrase order) of the sentence.

Paraphrasing • An appropriate paraphrase might be: According to Kelsey Kauffman, nurseries existed in many prisons for women at mid-century, and this allowed women to keep their babies with them from a few weeks to two years. Exactly how long depended upon the institution (62 -63).

Need More Help? ? • Librarians by Subject – You can request an appointment or send a quick email • Writers Resource Lab – Get help with writing papers and citing correctly Contact me directly • Tiffini Travis • – ttravis@csulb. edu – 562 985 -7850