A workshop for New York City high school students in the College Now program at Hunter College.

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Citation Management Concepts
and Skills for Digital Research
John Pell
Assistant Professor
Hunter College Libraries

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Overview
Discussion of Citations
Technologies for Citation
Management
Applying
Citation
Management with RefWorks

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Citations

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Citations
 What does “citation” mean to you?
 What kind of information might be included in a
citation?
 What might a citation look like?
 Why might a citation be significant?
 What problems may be involved in using citations?
 Bonus Question: can you define any of the
following terms and how they may relate to
citations in a digital environment:
XML, URL, DOI, metadata?

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Some Citation Formats
 American Psychological Association (APA)
 Elmborg, J. (2006). Critical information literacy: Implications for
instructional practice. The Journal of Academic
Librarianship, 32(2), 192–199.
 American Medical Association (AMA)
 1. Elmborg J. Critical information literacy: Implications for
instructional practice. The Journal of Academic Librarianship.
2006;32(2):192–199.
 Modern Language Association (MLA)
 Elmborg, J. “Critical Information Literacy: Implications for
Instructional Practice.” The Journal of Academic Librarianship 32.2
(2006): 192–199.

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Citations as Tools for Evaluating
Information
CITATION 1 CITATION 2
 AUTHOR: A person trained an  AUTHOR: Anonymous
experienced in the topic they are
writing about.
 TITLE: Does not relate to subject
 TITLE: Clearly relates to the subject of the article citing it.
of the article that cited it.
 WHO PUBLISHED IT: Self-
 WHO PUBLISHED IT: A journal published blog
devoted to the subject of the article
that rigorously screens and edits  WHEN IT WAS PUBLISHED:
submissions.
Before anything significant was
 WHEN IT WAS PUBLISHED: at a known about the subject.
time when knowledge of the subject
was well-developed  WHERE CAN YOU FIND IT: URL
that may or may not work 3
 WHERE CAN YOU FIND IT: months from now.
Specific pages of a specific issue
published on a specific date.

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Problems involved with using
citations
 What if we need to change to a different format?
 Whatif we are using a numbered format and we
need to change the order of our citations?
 What if we want to use some of the same citations in
a different paper?

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Technologies for Citation
Management
Building personal databases for your research and
writing

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Some Technologies for Citation
Management
 EndNote
 Mendeley
 Microsoft Word
 RefWorks
 Zotero

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Evaluating Technologies for Citation
Management
 How much does it cost?
 How much of it needs to be installed on your computer?
 How can you access your data?
 How can you share your data?
 How does it work with other technology that you use for
research and writing?

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RefWorks
 Free to Hunter Affiliates.
 $100/year for individual license
 Mainly Web-based
 Optional plug-ins enhance citation capturing and word processing
 Access with a web browser and an internet connection
 Share with other RefWorks users through shared folders.
 Optimized for IE, integrates with Word, citation capture is often
broken.

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Applying Citation
Management with RefWorks
Building personal databases for your research and
writing

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RefWorks Exercises
 Create a RefWorks account
 Understand how to login off-campus using the RefWorks group code
for Hunter: RWHuntC
 Import citations for books from your syllabus into your refworks
database
 Insert citations from your refworks database into a word
document
 Format the word document according to APA style rules, save a
copy and email it to John Pell

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Session Evaluation
 Please complete the session evaluation.
 Thanks!