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Biology

A library guide for biology students

Scholarship is a conversation. As a scholar, you are expected to present your new ideas through the lens of other scholars' publications. Whether you discuss someone's ideas in your own words or verbatim, you should always give credit to those before you. Watch this brief video from Bainbridge College that reviews plagiarism, quoting sources, paraphrasing, and citing.

 

Bainbridge State College (n. d.). Plagiarism: How to avoid it.

OneSearch can help generate a rough draft for a citation! When you click on the title of the record, you will see a Citation button directly under the "Send To" section of the record.

Record information after clicking on the title of the source. Under the Send to section there is a Citation button that will generate a rough draft citation in a variety of styles including APA.

By clicking on the Citation button, The citation button says citation and includes quotation marks as the icon.

 

OneSearch will generate a rough draft citation for you. You can copy this draft into a Word document. It will not be perfect so you will have to fix the mistakes. 

Sample citation generated in APA 7 style.

The UNF Library provides you with access to numerous citation style manuals. Additionally, librarians made a Citation Styles library guide for you to reference. Finally, UNF has invested in a citation management tool RefWorks that can help with storing articles and generating reference lists. 

What is RefWorks?

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RefWorks an online citation management tool that allows you to collect, manage and organize research papers and documents.

With RefWorks, you can:

  • Collect & Import: Save an unlimited number of references by importing from online databases, catalogs, websites, and your computer
  • Manage your Research: Organize, retrieve, read and annotate documents and references
  • Share & Collaborate: Share folders and work with others simultaneously
  • Write & Cite: Generate bibliographies and citations in thousands of citation styles, including MLA, APA and Turabian

 

 

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Do you want to know more about RefWorks? Visit the RefWorks library guide for more information regarding creating an account and using RefWorks effectively for storing articles, generating citations, and in-text citation help.