Pharmacy Library: Writing and Citing

Avoiding plagiarism is the most recognized reason for citing your sources well and correctly. 

Quick tips:

• Keep track of your sources using good notes.
• Ask your instructor or a librarian for help.
• Don't procrastinate.
• When in doubt, cite.

RefWorks is a is a web-based references and bibliography manager. The UIW Libraries RefWorks subscription allows you to:

• Create bibliographies and citations in multiple styles.
  • AMA, APA, Chicago/Turabian, MLA, Harvard, and more.
• Organize references with folders for each paper/project.
• Import references from library databases or websites.
• Share references and collaborate on group projects.
• Integrate with MS Word using Write-N-Cite plug-in.

For more information, see the RefWorks Research Guide.

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EndNote is an online references and bibliography manager. The UIW Libraries EndNote subscription (not the full EndNote 20 version) allows you to:

• Create bibliographies and citations in multiple citation styles.
  • AMA, APA, Chicago/Turabian, MLA, Harvard, and more.
• Organize references with folders for each paper/project.
• Import references from library databases or websites.
• Share references and collaborate on group projects.
• Integrate with MS Word using Cite-While-You-Write plug-in.

For more information, see the EndNote Library Guide.

To log in or create a new account go to:

Vancouver is a numbered referencing style commonly used in medicine and biological science, and consists of:

• citations to someone else's work in the text, indicated by the use of a number

• a sequentially numbered reference list at the end of the document providing full details of the corresponding in-text reference

The Vancouver Style is formally known as Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals (ICMJE Recommendations), and is gets its informal name from being developed in Vancouver, BC, Canada in 1978 by a committee of editors of medical journals. Well over 1,000 medical journals (including ICMJE members BMJ, CMAJ, JAMA & NEJM) use this style. Vancouver Style follows rules established by the International committee of Medical Journal Editors, now maintained by the U.S. National Library of Medicine. It is also known as Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts submitted to Biomedical Journals.

There is no official manual of the Vancouver style, but the US National Library of Medicine's style guide is now considered the most authoritative manual on this type of referencing.

Introduction to the Vancouver Style
http://guides.lib.monash.edu/citing-referencing/vancouver

​Citing Medicine, The NLM Style Guide for Authors, Editors, and Publishers, 2nd ed.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK7256/

Vancouver Style (Uniform Requirements) References 
https://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/uniform_requirements.html

The newest version of the APA Publication Manual is the 7th edition. It is available in print format at all UIW Libraries. Find out more about APA style at:

Additional 7th edition resources: