RESOURCES IN THE LIBRARY
Geowriting: a guide to writing, editing, and printing in earth science
Call Number: SCIENCE QE48.85 .G44 2004
Scientific style and format : the CSE manual for authors, editors, and publishers - Style Manual Committee, Council of Science Editors
Call Number: SCIENCE REF T11 .S386 2006
ONLINE CITATION GUIDE
SEPM Format - see examples in Literature Cited in PALAIOS
- ONLINE! Scientific Style and Format
EVALUATING SOURCES
Whether a Web site or in paper, the same criteria basically apply for both.
- Author is identified with reliable credentials
- Is the publication itself reliable? a reliable publisher? is the Web page URL coming from a government agency (.gov), an institution or agency (.org, .net), an educational institution (.edu) [.com or personal pages are not unbiased or necessarily reliable]
- Are there references for further reading?
- Do you know where their data comes from?
- How current is the information?
Use the criteria above to decide if the source is credible, accurate and reliable.
If you need to find primary literature, check out those criteria. If all you want is some news about a topic, a newspaper will suffice. It depends on what your need is.
MANAGE YOUR SOURCES
There is citation software available that allows you to collect your citations for projects, grabbing all the pertinent information, and reformat them into a selected format for your bibliography. If you don't already use one of these products, check them out.
Both are Web-based, but you can also download EndNote to
your computer:
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