Citation Management & Style Guides

RefWorks & EndNote Overview: Learn more about these citation managers, what they are, and what is involved in using them.

EndNote

EndNote is a robust citation management program for your desktop available for purchase at an educational discount for the UW-Madison community.

Documentation

NIH Policy

Videos & Tutorials

EndNote Web

EndNote Web is a web based version of EndNote free to campus users courtesy of UW-Madison Libraries. Its basic features allow undergraduate students to organize their references for citing in papers. Professional researchers and graduate students can use EndNote Web as the perfect complement to EndNote.

Log In to EndNote Web

Mendeley

Mendeley - Like iTunes for research papers. Mendeley is a free research management tool for desktop and web.

Documentation & Downloads

Papers

Papers is an inexpensive research article management application (Mac OS X 10.4 and above). An iPhone/iPod Touch app is also available.

Documentation

PubGet

PubGet helps you get articles fast.

Documentation & Add Ons

RefWorks

UW-Madison's subscription to RefWorks will end June 30, 2013

RefWorks is an online bibliographic citation manager available free to campus users courtesy of UW-Madison Libraries.

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NIH Policy

More Help

Zotero

Zotero, an extension for the Firefox web browser, is a free and open source citation management program.

Drop-In Workshops

Citation Manager: EndNote
2013-06-25,12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Ebling Library, Rm. 3268 details

Citation Manager: EndNote
2013-06-27,12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Ebling Library, Rm. 3268 details

Citation Manager: EndNote
2013-07-17,12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Ebling Library, Rm. 3268 details

Citation Manager: EndNote
2013-07-19,12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Ebling Library, Rm. 3268 details

Citation Manager: EndNote Web
2013-08-07,12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Ebling Library, Rm. 3268 details

Citation Manager: EndNote Web
2013-08-09,12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Ebling Library, Rm. 3268 details


UW Madison Writing Center

The UW Madison Writing Center provides individual help, free classes, writing handbooks and style guides, and more.

ACS

AMA

AMA Manual of StyleAMA Manual of Style
a guide for authors and editors
Online edition of the American Medical Association Manual of Style. 10th ed., c2007

APA

CBE

  • CBE (UW Writing Center)
  • CBE Guide (University of New England)

Chicago

NLM


Instructions for Authors

Publishers may have specific citation format guidelines they want followed that are contrary to examples on this page. Consult Instructions to Authors in the Health Sciences or contact the publisher of the publication in question for details.

NLM Style Guide

For additional information on citing internet resources, see NLM's Citing Medicine section on Databases / Retrieval Systems on the Internet.

ACP Journal Club

BMJ's Clinical Evidence

  • Example:
  • Wilt, T. Prostate cancer: non-metastatic. BMJ Clinical Evidence [online] 2002 [cited Aug 30]. URL: http//clinicalevidence.com/......
  • How do I cite BMJ Clinical Evidence?

Cochrane Review

  • Example:
  • Authors. Title of review. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 200X, Issue X. Art. No.: CD00XXX. DOI: XX.XXXX/XXXXXXXX.CD00XXXX.pubX.

DARE

  • Examples:
  • if accessed via the CRD website:
  • Title of abstract [Abstract number] Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects, available http://www.crd.york.ac.uk/crdweb/ [year of access, date of access]. Abstract of: Title, authors, journal title, year of publication, volume and issue number, pages.
  • if accessed via the Cochrane Library:
  • Title of abstract [Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects abstract number]. In: The Cochrane Library, Issue number, year. Oxford, Update Software. Abstract of: Title, authors, journal title, year of publication, volume and issue number, pages.
  • How do I cite a record form DARE?

MD Consult

  • How you cite MD Consult depends on whether you are citing books, journals, clinics, drug monographs, original MD Consult material, etc. For examples of each, see this guide.
  • How do I cite MD Consult?

Micromedex

  • How to cite Micromedex depends on whether you are referencing the Micromedex application itself, a specific database that is part of the application, or an individual document (most typical). This guide provides examples of each.
  • Citing Thomson Healthcare Materials

STAT!Ref

  • Example:
  • Falk, E. & Fuster, "Atherogenesis and its determinants." Hurst's the Heart, http://online.statref.com/document.aspx?DocID=1030&StartDoc=1030&EndDoc=13 46&FxID=67&offset=7&level=1&State=False&Local=True&SessionID=17D9D7HKSOYVRVJL& [Date accessed: 2003 Sept. 12] In STAT!Ref Online Electronic Medical Library [online database]. Jackson, WY, Teton Data Systems, 2003.
  • How to Cite STAT!Ref

UpToDate

  • Cite the UpToDate topic as a chapter in a book titled UpToDate, edited by Denise S. Basow, published by UpToDate in Waltham, MA. There are no page numbers to cite. Since UpToDate is released every four months, each topic will appear (i.e., be published) in each release we issue, so the publication year for any topic should be the current year.
  • Example:
  • Marion, DW. Diaphragmatic pacing. In: UpToDate, Basow, DS (Ed), UpToDate,
    Waltham, MA, 2008.
  • How do I cite an UpToDate topic?

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Print Style Manuals

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Data Citation

"Data citation refers to the practice of providing a reference to data in the same way as researchers routinely provide a bibliographic reference to printed resources." (Australian National Data Service)

Guides

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Page last updated: November 13, 2012
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