Don't forget to cite your sources for any data, graphics, or illustrations you include in your presentation.
Need to pull together your references for a paper or presentation? Click HERE for a detailed guide to using RefWorks.
"This Style Manual is intended to provide formatting instructions, as well as appropriate content and organization, for each part of the research paper and is to be used as the standard throughout the entire four-year Biology Curriculum."
Some style guide options created outside TCNJ and widely used in scholarly publications:
Journal websites usually have a page called something like "Instructions for Authors." Your professor may suggest that you follow the style used by a particular journal. For example:
RefWorks is a web-based program that allows you to easily collect, manage, and organize bibliographic citations by interfacing with databases. RefWorks also operates directly with MS Word, making it easy to import citations and incorporate them into your writing as properly formatted footnotes or parenthetical citations according to the style of your choice.
NOTE: The RefWorks providers themselves urge you to examine your citations carefully to make sure they are correctly imported and formatted. To do this, you may need to consult the official style guide for whichever citation style your course requires.
Zotero is a free and open-source software that also allows you to collect and organize bibliographic citations. Like RefWorks, it also allows you to create citations and bibliographies in a number of styles. Zotero has a couple of specific advantages that set it apart from paid products like RefWorks and EndNote:
Although it does have a web version, to work best, Zotero needs to be downloaded onto your computer. To get started, visit Zotero's website here. Then use these resources to help get your Zotero up and running:
Some databases and journals will include references in a citation style using abbreviated journal titles the meanings of which may be ambiguous, e.g., Clin Eff Nurs or Nurs Health Sci.
To confirm the complete, correct journal title and obtain an ISSN (International Standard Serial Number), look up the abbreviation in:
If you cannot confirm a correct journal title yourself, rather than submit an incorrect title, try: