Health Studies: Citing, Writing, & Evaluating

Citing & Writing Resources

APA Style (7th ed.)
Online guide from the American Psychological Association. Also see the APA Style Blog, and the Instructional Aids pages.
APA Citing Guide
from the Campus Library
APA Style Guide
from the UW Health Sciences Library
APA Style Workshop
from the Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL)
Resolve a DOI
If you enter in the DOI to the web address box of a browser and it does not work, try it in this page
DOI Shortener
When a DOI is long or complex, you may use shortDOIs. Either produce a new shortDOI for a work that has never had one, or retrieve an existing shortDOI.
Citing Images
from the Campus Library
Quoting and Paraphrasing
from the Univ. of Wisconsin
Guidelines for Preparing an Annotated Bibliography
from the Campus Library

Evaluating Sources
from the Campus Library
MedlinePlus Guide to Healthy Web Surfing
More on Evaluating Health Information. Medline Plus is from the NLM and the NIH.
Find Good Health Information
from the Medical Library Association.
Finding and Evaluating Online Resources
from the NIH: National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health.
Anatomy of a Scholarly Article
from the NCSU Libraries
Ulrichsweb
This index does not provide any fulltext or abstracts of articles. It is a directory to 300,000+ journals and other serials/periodical titles that are held internationally, and provides information such as which titles are refereed/scholarly.