This video is the fifth in a series of informal tutorials related to literature reviews, proposal and dissertation formatting, etc. for the Leadership Program at Andrews University.
This tutorial covers getting a reference from ArticleFirst into Endnote, including the full text.
Again, please comment if you have additional tips or suggestions, or even questions.
This video is the fourth in a series of informal tutorials related to literature reviews, proposal and dissertation formatting, etc. for the Leadership Program at Andrews University.
This tutorial covers getting a reference from Wilson Select into Endnote, including the full text.
Again, please comment if you have additional tips or suggestions, or even questions.
This video is the third in a series of informal tutorials related to literature reviews, proposal and dissertation formatting, etc. for the Leadership Program at Andrews University.
This tutorial covers getting a reference from Dissertation Abstract / ProQuest Digital Dissertations into Endnote, including the full text.
Again, please comment if you have additional tips or suggestions, or even questions.
This video is the second in a series of informal tutorials related to literature reviews, proposal and dissertation formatting, etc. for the Leadership Program at Andrews University.
This tutorial sets the context for the next clips and gives you some reasons why you should be organizing your references with a tool like Endnote.
Again, please comment if you have additional tips or suggestions, or even questions.
This video is the first in a series of informal tutorials related to literature reviews, proposal and dissertation formatting, etc. for the Leadership Program at Andrews University.
This video is in response to an assignment in LEAD 637 to set up a scholar space. I thought I’d share how I created by own digital scholar space.
Please comment and share tips and suggestions from your own organizational system.
My dissertation proprosal is coming along nicely, so while I’m waiting for feedback from my committee I’m working carefully through my APA references.
APA Supplement
In the LEAD 880 Proposal Development class, the instructors linked to a new Andrews document about the new APA rules for citing from the Internet. I can’t find it online to link it here. The document recommends the full APA Supplement – 11.95 – that Bonnie Proctor’s document recommends. I knew I needed it because I’m quoting two blog entries. So I bought and downloaded that.
At first I wondered if I needed to do the doi stuff for all my journal articles – but then I realized I collected almost all of them online – so I guess I had better do so!
Endnote Upgrade
Then I upgraded my Endnote program – (Help, Endnote Program Updates) figuring that might help me.
Updated APA Style for Endnote
Then I googled “Endnote APA electronic” to see if there were any updated APA styles out there. I found this page in Australia – where the librarians fixed the Endnote style for APA so it does it better. I downloaded that to the styles folder (c:/program files/endnote/styles).
DOIs
To test it I entered a DOI for one of my journal articles. I chose the uq_apa5th style for an electronic journal article and then switched back to Endnote’s APA and I could see that the uq one does it right.
Next I’m heading over to http://www.crossref.org/ to collect DOI’s for as many references as I can. You can use the Guest Query for just one reference, or copy and paste a set of references from Endnote (Ctrl+K), add a line between each one, and search with the Simple Text Query.
I’m also fixing my references by sorting the list by RefType. Then I can carefully check all the books, all the conference papers, all the journals etc.
As I’ve been searching and finding the DOI numbers, I’ve discovered that CrossRef.org doesn’t seem to know the DOI’s for international papers. Journals from InformaWorld, for example, have DOIs, but the CrossRef.org doesn’t find them. So I’m double searching for all DOIs, first on CrossRef.org, then on Google. If I know the article came from InformaWorld, usually the DOI is already in the URL field from downloading the reference. So I can just copy and paste it from there into the DOI field.
Editing Reference Styles
As I’m doing this, I’m finding some “odd” ones that I have to figure out from the new APA reference. A powerpoint presentation, a chapter in an electronic book, etc. I figured out that if you go to Edit, Output Styles, Edit up_apa5th [or insert your filename here], then Bibliography, templates, you can see exactly how the reference is built.
I stumbled across this when I was trying to do the chapter in an electronic book. I thought I needed to create a new reference type, but really the electronic book reference has the setup for the chapter as well. If you put the chapter info it, it lists it as a chapter in a book. Otherwise it just lists as an electronic book. So figuring out how the references are put together can help you figure out what data to enter where.
These are the reference styles I edited:
I also created two new ones for the ERIC documents. I’m not positive these formats will be accepted, but if they aren’t, I’ll edit them again here.
First, you go to Edit, Preferences, Reference Types, and choose one of the Unused reference types. Click Modify Reference Type. Then you can turn on the fields by typing in the same name or a different name. I used a similar reference – like conference paper – to figure out what I should do. After turning on the fields you want, then go to Edit, Output Styles, Edit [your style name here], Bibliography, Templates. I’ve been just adding to the uq_apa5th that I downloaded earlier. Here are the two I did – one for a paper and one for reports.
Some of the dots & lines, italics etc. don’t come through here, so you’ll want to make your own by typing it in. But this gives you an idea of what I did.
Hope these steps and tips are helpful for you too! Please comment if you have corrections, updates, or further suggestions.
This past summer, I began searching for dissertations on my research topic, videoconferencing in K12 education. I began at the Andrews’ library page (link www.andrews.edu/library), went to List All Databases, and selected Dissertation Abstracts. After some searches, I found that the term “videoconferencing” was getting the best results. Then I noticed a button that shows up after you search: “Set Up Alert.” Since I’d learned about alerts from Dr. Covrig in Orientation, I clicked it. I forgot all about it until November, when I received two “alert” emails from ProQuest telling me about really important dissertations that are very applicable to my topic!
Now I’m sold on alerts. I’ve since dug out Dr. Covrig’s alerts instructions from Orientation and set up alerts at all the major sites listed. I’ve signed up fairly broadly, because articles about my topic show up in all sorts of places. Usually at the beginning of the week or month, I get an email announcement that I quickly scan.
If something sounds interesting, I click the URL and open it up. I open it up in Internet Explorer because I have Firefox set up as my regular browser, and Internet Explorer (IE) with the Andrews proxy. When I use IE, I’m “on campus”. If I really like the article/dissertation, I export the reference to Endnotes and save the full text PDF to my Full Text Folder for my research. My Full Text Folder is organized with file names like the start of an APA reference, i.e. Lastname2007MyOwnWordsorPiecesofTitle.pdf. Then when I get around to it, I read and blog the article as my research notes.
Just finishing skimming through Writing Your Dissertation with Microsoft Word. This handy little reference book covers several important topics. Each section includes screen shots and step by step what to click.
Templates
Chapter 1 covers how to set up a template for your chapters, front matter and back matter. The templates cover not only the margins and page numbers, but also the style of headers, fonts, indents, block quotations, footnotes, endnotes, and even fixes widows & orphans. Need that for sure! Kiernan highly recommends starting with the template your university provides, if they do. Here’s the AU Word template, although the caveat mentions that it doesn’t include the front matter required for dissertations.
Formatting Chapters
Chapter 2 covers formatting chapters. It includes how to bring in existing text and not lose important formatting, lists, block quotations, auto text and more. The gem from this chapter is creating cross-reference. I.e. if you plan to reference Table 1, it may not still be Table 1 when you’re done editing. So instead you cross-reference Table 1, and Word keeps track of the latest title. Cool!
Tables & Figures
Chapters three and four include important tips for creating tables and figures. Important tips are – plan your table before you start making it in Word. It’s a pain to add columns later! Word can deal with “column spanners” which are important for some types of statistical tables as I learned in the last class. How to deal with page breaks is another important section.
Equations
A critical tip from the equation chapter is for dealing with subscript and superscript. Most universities don’t want the smaller typeface due to it being unclear in microfilmed versions of the text. So, instead you use Raised Position or Lowered Position. Cool tip! Wouldn’t have found that on my own!
Back and front matter
Chapters six and seven deal with the beginning and ending pages. Setting the paragraph style for the bibliography is a key section in these pages. Getting Word to automatically create your table of contents and figure/table lists is another critical section. This requires following the instructions about headings and chapter titles in section one. Clearly it’s critical to start off on the right foot!
Final documents
Chapter seven suggests two options for putting it all together – merging into one file, or keeping a master document. Instructions for both methods are included. The author also highly recommends saving each chapter separately until the very end for backup and sharing reasons.
Finally, the book ends with tips to avoid a total loss: antivirus software, backups, multiple copies, etc. I’m sure I’ll be referencing this resource again in the future!
Here’s an interesting announcement from the online journal, Innovate. (Free registration required to view the article.)
We open the December/January issue with an exciting new development in bibliographic technology. My interview with Trevor Owens explores Zotero, an open-source bibliographic tool that runs as a Firefox plug-in and has the potential to reshape the way research is done and how it is shared.
[See http://innovateonline.info/index.php?view=article&id=540&action=article]
This webcast is scheduled for January 10, 2008 at 2:00 PM EST.
I think their tag says it all: “Research, not re-search”. Check it out if you haven’t settled into a bibliography tool yet.
Huff, D. & Geis, I. (1954). How to lie with statistics. New York: Norton.
Time for another book review! I’m almost done Applied Statistics for Education and Psychology I that I’ve been taking this fall. One more week, one more unit, one final paper, then I’m done!
My dad gave me the musty old bright orange book called How to lie with statistics to supplement my reading for the course. Sounds kind of unethical, doesn’t it? But this is a really funny book that puts the principles and concepts in Stats into real-life situations where you can see the consequences of getting it wrong! It’s an easy read, written in layman’s language. Certainly very old, and you’ll notice the numbers on salaries etc. in the examples are amusingly low. Still, it’s a great way to “take a break” from stats while still working on drilling the concepts into your brain.
The book addresses sampling issues, the different types of averages and how they can be used incorrectly (remember mean, mode, and median?), the acceptable way to create charts (makes you examine carefully charts you see in the news), probable errors and standard errors, and more.
And of course, what has been drilled into my head this past fall: causation is NOT correlation! Ah, bummer. I thought I’d be able to do some research on factors that influence how much my districts use videoconferencing, but even if I find a significant correlation, it still doesn’t necessarily mean those factors caused their high use of VC. Stats is a good reality check for what you can and can’t say with authority.
So, if you’re taking a stats class and it’s driving you crazy, I recommend this little gem. Dig it out from the recesses of your nearest library and enjoy a musty smell and an amusing read. All the while you’ll be learning stats a little better!
Oh, look! Amazon.com is selling a 1993 edition. I’m sure it won’t have quite the same aura of a 1954 edition. But probably still a great read.
