PHCY 6370: Advanced Pharmacy Experience Orientation: Citation Management Software

Using the Clipboard in PubMed to save selected citations, then exporting the citations into a citation management program such as RefWorks and EndNoteWeb is easy. Go to the PubMed Help Manual and follow the directions for the Clipboard.

If you want to save your searches in PubMed, create a list of articles, or set up an alert, sign up for MyNCBI. For tutorials on how to set up and use this free PubMed resource from the National Library of Medicine, watch the tutorials MyNCBI Home Page. Additional tutorials can be found on the PubMed tutorials page. MyNCBI is not a citation generator.

Click the image above, and:

1. Download the Zotero application

2. Install a connector for your browser.

What is plagiarism?

“To steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own : use (another's production) without crediting the source.”
plagiarism. (2010). In Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary.Retrieved August 10, 2010, from http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/plagiarism

When should you cite your sources?

1. If you directly quote a source
2. If you paraphrase ideas from another person's work
3. If you summarize ideas from another person's work

Types of plagiarism

Blending

• Mixing words or ideas from an unacknowledged source in with your own words or ideas.
• Mixing together uncited words and ideas from several sources into a single work.
• Mixing together properly cited uses of a source with uncited uses.

Direct Plagiarism

• A phrase or passage that is copied word for word, but not quoted.

Paraphrasing

• Rephrasing another person’s work and inserting into your own work without acknowledging the original source.

Insufficient Acknowledgement

• Half crediting source; whereby you acknowledge the author’s work the first time, but continue to use the author’s words without giving additional attribution.