Biology 697: Citing and Citation Management

Zotero (zoh-tair-oh) is a free, easy-to-use reference management (sometimes called citation management) tool for collecting, organizing, annotating, citing, and sharing research. Install the desktop app and access from the web. The Browser Connector senses research online in real-time, identifying citations from journal articles in databases, news articles from the web, and books from the library catalog. Attach PDFs and images to citations. Add folders and subfolders to organize content. Create bibliographies with just a few clicks, and add in-text citations to word documents. 

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Council of Scientific Editors Style offers three different systems for citing sources:  citation-name, citation-sequence, and name-year (See links below for additional information).

• Citation-name
  1. End of paper reference list = alphabetic order by last name; each citation numbered
  2. In-text citations = number of reference.
• Citation-sequence
  1. End of paper reference list = arranged by the order in which they appear in the paper; each citation numbered
  2. In-text citations = number of reference.
• Name-year
  1. End of paper reference list = alphabetic order by last name
  2. In-text citations = last name and year of citation in parentheses

Brief guidelines for most commonly used cite types:

Journal citation:  Author(s). Date. Article title. Journal title. Volume(issue):page numbers.

Book citation:  Author(s). Date. Title. Edition. Place of publication: publisher.

Book chapter:  Author(s). Date. Title. Chapter Title.  In: Editor(s) name, editor.  Book Title. Place of publication: publisher. chapter pages.

Website:  Title of Homepage. Date of publication. Edition. Place of publication: publisher; [date updated; date accessed].

CSE Style requires journal titles to be abbreviated (see Journal Title Abbreviations in left column).