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Online Resources

Plagiarism and Citing Sources Tutorial
http://www.hsl.unc.edu/services/tutorials/PlagiarismTutorial/intro.html
The Health Sciences Library's tutorial on avoiding plagiarism and properly citing your sources.

Writing Center Handouts
http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/index.html
Electronic handouts from the UNC Writing Center covering each step of writing the paper, as well as citations, style and word choice, and writing for a specific field or assignment.

HealthLinks Citation Style Manuals
http://healthlinks.washington.edu/hsl/styleguides/manuals.html
Offers substantial guidance for properly citing resources in medical and health science writing from The University of Washington.

UNC-CH Academic Affairs Library
http://www.lib.unc.edu/instruct/citations/
Provides tutorials and examples for commonly used bibliographic citation styles such as CSE/CBE, APA, and MLA. Also contains information regarding plagiarism and how to avoid doing it in your research and writing.

Shelburne Community School Cool Tools
http://www.scsvt.org/LIBRARY/Cooltool.htm#Research
Various links for students and researchers to help with different citation styles, including the Citation Machine http://citationmachine.net/, which will generate citations from the data you input.

ONLINE!
http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/online/citex.html
How to cite online sources (websites, emails, web discussion forums, listservs, newsgroups and more) by using APA, CBE, Chicago, and others bibliographic styles.

Writing Guidelines for Science and Engineering Students
http://www.writing.eng.vt.edu/
Detailed guidelines and step-by-step process for scientific writing from Virginia Tech. Also includes information on preparing presentations, correspondence, and formal reports.

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Use a bibliographic tool to help you save, organize, and correctly format your references.

Refworks
http://www.hsl.unc.edu/Services/Guides/refworkstips.cfm
RefWorks is a web-based citation management program that is free for UNC-Chapel Hill faculty, staff and students. The RefWorks program allows users to create a personal database for managing their research citations.

Endnote
http://www.hsl.unc.edu/Services/Guides/endnotetips.cfm
EndNote is another option for bibliographic management and formatting. Recommended especially for advanced graduate students and researchers.

Reference Manager
http://www.hsl.unc.edu/Services/Guides/refmantips.cfm
Reference manager is a bibliographic management and formatting program.

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Print Resources

In the HSL, books on scientific writing and style manuals are located in both the Reference and general collections. Search for items in the online Catalog.

Some suggested books:

Day, R. A., Gastel, B. (2006). How to write and publish a scientific paper . Westport , Conn. : Greenwood . WZ 345 D274h 2006

Gerin, W. (2006). Writing the NIH grant proposal: a step-by-step guide . Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications. W 20.5 G369w 2006

 Rubens, P. (2001). Science and technical writing . New York , New York : Routledge.WZ 345 S4416 2001

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