Important takeaways from this video:
- Always cite your sources:
- When you are quoting directly from a source
- When you use facts you found in a source
- When you are closely paraphrasing from a source
- When you are introducing an idea that may not be common knowledge to the reader
- When you include images or other graphics from a source in your presentation
- There are many different citation styles, and the way you will create your citations will vary depending on what style you are using. Confirm with your publication or professor what style of citation you should use
- In medicine, the most commonly used styles are AMA and APA
- Citations consist of two parts:
- An in-text citation which appears in the body of your work at the point where you use information taken from another source
- An entry on a 'references' list at the end of your work
- Citation management software can help you organize and export citations
- Zotero and Mendeley are two examples of free citation management software
- RRH employees can request to have Endnote, a premium citation management program, installed on their work computers
- You can copy and paste reference citations directly from research databases
- Additional publishing and citation support is available on the RRH Libraries' Publishing Resource Guide
