Manage Your Information
Citation Management
Citation managers allow you to save and cite your sources as you go and make creating your in-text citations and bibliography quite easy.
- Comparing Citation ManagersGuide to selecting between three citation managers: Endnote Basic, Mendeley, and Zotero
- Citation Management Instructional Video11-minute Panopto video demonstrating how to use a citation manager, example is in Zotero.
- EndNote BasicEndNote Basic is the web-based, free version of Endnote, a citation manager; helps you collect and organize your research, and format your papers in JAMA or other citation styles.
- MendeleyFree citation management software
- ZoteroFree citation management software
Citation Styles
There is no 'correct' citation style as long as you are following a citation style's guidelines. Check if your instructor or advisor has a recommended or required format before selecting your own. Common styles in the health sciences include the following.
- Style GuidesGuides to commonly used citation style guides in health sciences: APA, AMA, NLM
Keeping Current
Guides to keeping current with the literature through search alerts. Search alerts are based on a search that you created; when you create a search alert, you will periodically receive notice of new research published that is returned by your search. Most search alerts can be set to different intervals, like once per week, once per month, etc.
- MyNCBI (PubMed)Create an account to save search strategies and collections of references. Set up email alerts to find out when new articles publish on your search topic. Set Filter preferences to display ‘Check for Full Text’ links to UW library holdings.
Individual accounts are also available in Embase, Web of Science and other databases. - CINAHL Complete Search AlertsCreating a search alert on EBSCO's CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature) Complete.