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Bio 44 - Citing the biological journal literature
Jason Price, Gale Burrow &/or Mary MartinCUC
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[Background for Brownbag]
History of assignmentCourse integrationDesign assignment to
address existing needMaximize learning to extra work ratioTiming is
keySakai and pre-assignmentSession signupsWorkshop builds on
pre-assignment
Three learning objectives
How to structure in-text & Lit. cited entries
How to write good citing sentences
How to find journal articles to cite in your competition formal
report
In-text citation structure
This is my citing sentence ([in-text citation]).1 author (1st
authors last name [no init], year)(Price, 2004)2 authors (Both
authors last names, year)(Price and Burrow, 2004) (in order on
paper)3 or more authors (First author + et al/and others, yr)(Price
et al., 2004) (Price, Burrow, and others 2004) also ok #1 rule: Be
consistent
Wilson JB. 1988. The effect of initial advantage on the course
of plant competition. Oikos 51(1):19-24.
List all authors in order presented in the paper.Year of
publication.Article title.Journal title [Full or Abbreviated Be
consistent]Volume #(Issue #): [if available]Pagination [Start page
End page]
Literature Cited structure
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Example paper: html version
The PDF
Sakai > Resources > Citing the literature or
http://dx.doi.org/10.1006/anbe.1999.1329
Often the best source of citation information
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Fix it #1: 4 errors (beyond style!)
Year
Vol
St Pg - end pg
1# what year is this? (dont use page number in the sciences) 2#
Year out of order, no volume number, no start and end page(not to
mention mispelling of first authors name)
(other differences stylistic but probably ok as long as they are
consistent)Some profs may want you to follow the style in your lab
manual appendix exactly
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Fix it #2: 2 errors
Wrong Year (published in 2000)In text should be Holway and Case,
2000
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Your Turn: Correct your citations
Citing sentence (Holway and Case, 2000).
Holway D and Case T. 2000. Mechanisms of dispersed central-place
foraging in polydomous colonies of the Argentine ant. Animal
Behaviour 59(2): 433-441.
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Citing Sentence Rules
Do not cite from the introduction (0)
Paraphrase a main point the paper provides evidence for (+1)
Be specific and clear (+1)
Tie the main point of the paper to your experiment/research
results (n/a here)
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Poor: does not cite a main point (0 pts) *the study does not
address other species
Citing sentence examples
If they thought this, how it relates to what I am doing (relate
to current work/experiement)
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Citing sentence examples
Average: Cites main point (+), is not specific (-) (1pt)
If they thought this, how it relates to what I am doing (relate
to current work/experiement)
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Citing sentence examples
Good : Cites a main point, is specific and clear (2pts)
find main result in the figures (This from fig 5) very good
idea! (always pay attention to the figures and data!) good place to
mine a specific point
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The location of food can affect the among-nest distribution of
Argentine ant workers (Holway and Case, 2000).
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