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Most articles in scholarly journals are peer-reviewed, except for editorials, commentaries, letters to the editor, or news items.
Visual clues can help you determine whether an article is probably peer-reviewed or not.
See this YouTube video or the two handouts below for clues to distinguishing between a magazine article and a scholarly article.
Use the Morris Library Catalog to find books and other resources. Search by broad topic and then limit by format type including electronic books (see the right hand-hand column of the search results screen). You may limit to SIUC only if you choose (this works for electronic books). You may also change the search type from relevance to newest. If you are unable to request an item from I-Share, ask me or Ask-A-Librarian about requesting it using a different interlibrary loan system.
Start with broader topics, e.g., wildlfe and poaching
Example:
(Smith and Jones, 1982; Jones, 1988a,b; Jones et al., 1992, 1993).
When the author's name appears in the sentence, it does not need to be repeated in the citation.
Example:
Smith and Jones (1992) or Smith and Jones (1990, 1992)
Example:
(Jones et al., 1992)
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Journal names shall be abbreviated according to the conventional ISO abbreviations used by PubMed (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nlmcatalog/journals).
Last name, Initials, Initials Last name, Initials Last name. Year. Article title, sentence style capitalization. Abbreviated journal title volume(issue, if available):pages. DOI for article published after 2005.
Example:
Perez, V. G., A. M. Waguespark, T. D. Bidner, L. L. Southern, T. M. Fakler, T. L. Ward, M. Steidinger, and J. E. Pettigrew. 2011. Additivity of effects from dietary copper and zinc on growth performance and fecal microbiotia of pigs after weaning. J. Anim. Sci. 89:414-425. doi:10.2527/jas.2010-2839
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Author. Year. Title, sentence level capitalization. Edition, if available. Publisher's name, publisher's location.
Example:
AOAC. 1990. Official methods of analysis. 15th ed. Assoc. Off. Anal. Chem., Arlington, VA.
Last name, Initials, Initials Last name, and Initials Last name. Year. Chapter title, sentence style capitalization. In: editor. Book title, sentence style capitalization. Publisher's name, Publisher's location. pages.
Example:
Robinson, P. H., E. K. Okine, and J. J. Kennelly. 1992. Measurement of protein digestion in ruminants. In: S. Nissen, editor, Modern methods in protein nutrition and metabolism. Academic Press, San Diego, CA, p. 121-127.
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Last name, Initials. Year. Title, sentence style capitalization. Thesis type. Academic institution, Location.
Example:
Ward, J. D. 1995. Effects of copper deficiency on performance and immune function of cattle. PhD Diss. North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh.
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