Research Guides: Pharmacy: Citation Help

Citing Sources

Citations are important in scholarly work to help avoid plagiarism, give credit to others, provide readers with a reliable way to locate the sources used in your work, and to establish scholarly credits for ourselves. The following resources may help you manage citations for your projects:

Academic Integrity and Plagiarism Tutorial
See examples and cases of plagiarism; learn tips to avoid plagiarism.
AMA Manual of Style
A guide for anyone involved in medical and scientific publishing.
APA guide
APA (the American Psychological Association) style is most commonly used to cite sources within the social sciences.
Citing Medicine 2E
The NLM Style Guide for Authors, Editors, and Publishers. A guide for anyone involved in medical and scientific publishing.
TAMU Citing and Writing LibGuide
Several library guides available on different citation styles.

Citation Management Tools

EndNote
A bibliographic management program, which stores your references and helps you create in-text citations and reference list at the end of the document.
EndNote Desktop Platform
Desktop software for Windows and Mac operating systems. Free to TAMU faculty and students. You will need to follow the linked instructions to download to your computer. Platform can be used offline.
EndNote Online Platform
Web version of EndNote. Allows user access references from anywhere, and sync your references across multiple devices. Requires registration of a free personal user account.
RefWorks
A web-based bibliographic management program, which stores your references and helps you create in-text citations and reference lists at the end of your documents. The program is free to TAMU faculty and students.

Image Use

Like journal articles, books, reports, web pages, images/graphics also need to be cited properly. You will need to identify the essential elements such as author, date, title, and source.

Public Domain Works
A site devoted to public domain works, which allows you to reuse images freely.
Google Advanced Image Search
Select {free to use or share} under {Usage Rights}.
NIH Image Gallery
JHU Center for Educational Resources
Freely available images and multimedia created under Creative Commons or for educational use from the Center for Educational Resources at Johns Hopkins University.
AccessPharmacy
Search for a topic, you will see image results under Multimedia section. Clicking the Download Slide (.ppt) link will automatically insert the image into a PPT slide.
ClinicalKey
Search images using Multimedia from the drop-down menu, add the image to presentation, and the image will be imported into your PPT. You will have to create an account to use this feature.
SMART Imagebase
Download thousands of medical illustrations, videos, interactive tools, and monographs of anatomy, physiology, embryology, surgery, trauma, pathology, diseases, conditions and other topics.
VisualDX
This is a collection of medical images. When you found the desired image, open it, choose Copy Image from the right-mouse-click menu, and paste it onto a PPT slide.
NLM Citing Medicine
Rules and examples to citing images.