MRU Library Website: Policy Studies: Citation

What You Need to Know About Citation

Citation is stating where you got your information.

The reasons you cite:

To give credit where credit is due – to avoid plagiarizing
To give information about a source so people (i.e. your instructor) can find it

You need to cite:

In the paper (in-text citations)
At the end (reference list)

Citation Guides from Writing and Learning Services

There are citation experts at Mount Royal. Here are some resources they have created and ways to contact them.

Cite Sources
Learn the correct way to cite sources.
Writing and Learning Services
You can make an appointment with Writing and Learning Services and they can help you with the citations for your assignments.

Manage and cite your research

There are many reference manager programs you can choose from (even beyond the two listed here). Both do all the basics: manage your references, create in-text citations and bibliographies. You should pick the one that is right for you.

*Free at the moment, but was purchased by Elsevier in 2013.

Mendeley has three parts: Mendeley Web, Mendeley Desktop, Mendeley Citation creator. Install it on your own computer or use it on the library computers (we hope to expand it to more computers on campus soo).

Mendeley Web http://www.mendeley.c om

Load the web importer into the toolbars of all the browsers you use to be able to import lists of references from Google Scholar, PubMed and more
You can also download – Desktop, Word plug in (citation generator)

Mendeley Desktop

Adding references to your Mendeley library - video tutorial
Drag PDF files from your desktop into Mendeley and they are automatically added!
Watch a folder - anything added to this folder will be indexed in Mendeley
Clean up citation info, add notes and tags
Open sources to add highlights and sticky notes
Remember to synchronize to Mendeley Web as you go

Generate citations with Mendeley

Video tutorial
Two options
1. If using Word or Open Office you can use install a plug-in to create in text- citations and your reference list.
2. Copy or drag and drop citations directly into your reference list (good if you are using Google docs)
  - You may find it simpler to select and right-click to copy citations from your library (though you will have to make your own in-text citations)
In Mendeley Desktop got to View>Citation Style > More styles to download Biochemical Pharmacology
YOU STILL HAVE TO CHECK YOUR CITATIONS

More Mendeley info can be found on their site, here: http://resources.mendeley.com/