Research Guides: Clinical Laboratory Science: Write It / Cite It

Citing Sources

Citation Resources

APA Style

APA style 7th edition:

APA 7th Edition LibGuide

APA 6th Edition resources:

AMA Style

AMA Manual of Style 11th ed. Guide

NLM Style

Citing Medicine 2nd ed.

International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE)

Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals (ICMJE Recommendations) - Formerly the Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts

Writing Help

University Writing Center
Provides instruction to students, faculty, and staff of the university with basic writing skills and assistance with specific writing assignments in any discipline. For more information, please contact them.

Citation Manager

RefWorks Libguide
RefWorks - New Interface
RefWorks is an online research management, writing, and collaboration tool. RefWorks is designed to help researchers easily gather, manage, store, and share all types of information, as well as generate citations and bibliographies.

Bibliographic Tools

Citation Builder

NCSU Citation Builder
If you only have a few references to do, you can use this resource to automatically format references in APA, MLA, and CBE/CSE style.

Plagiarism

About Plagiarism

Plagiarism is a serious offense at East Carolina University. The ECU Student Handbook defines plagiarism as "Copying the language, structure, ideas, and/or thoughts of another and adopting same as one's own original work."

The First Year Writing Studio at ECU offers the following suggestions for avoiding plagiarism:

Place quotation marks around direct quotes.
Paraphrase your source information. This means more than rearranging the structure of a sentence or changing a few words. A good way to do this is to figure out what the source means to you and then writing this down without looking at the source.
Document all quotes and paraphrased information, and provide a Works Cited page at the end of your paper.
In your notes, record quotes, paraphrases, and summaries in an orderly manner so that the page number, source, author/editor, and publication information are carefully noted.

Links for more information:

Citing Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism
From Duke University
The Code of Conduct (ECU)