Cybertour: Managing Content: Citation Tools
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This document summarizes and compares several citation tools and databases and how accurately they generate citations in APA style. It finds that while citation tools and databases can generate citations with around 90% accuracy, they all make some errors in areas like capitalization, inclusion of issue numbers, and DOI formatting unless the user knows how to edit the record to fix it. Examples are provided of citations generated by databases like EbscoHost ERIC, InfoTrac Academic OneFile, and ProQuest as well as tools like EndNote, Mendeley, and Google Scholar to show common errors. The conclusion is that the citation generators get reasonably close but not perfectly correct without human editing based on style guidelines.
Cybertour: Managing Content: Citation Tools
- 1. Managing Content: Citation Tools Greg R. Notess CIL 2016 Cybertour March 8, 2016
- 2. Citations Tools • Everywhere • Helpers: • In Microsoft Word • In Databases • From Journal Publishers • Managers • EndNote & EndNote Online • Mendeley • Zotero • Dozens More • Papers, ReadCube, etc.
- 3. How Well Do They Do? • A Somewhat Informed Guess: 90% Accuracy? • Accuracy Depends On • Data Entered/Available • Knowledge of the Tool, Helper, and Style • Let’s Compare
- 4. APA Style Example • From American Psychological Association. (2012). APA style guide to electronic references (6th ed.). Washington: APA.
- 5. EbscoHost ERIC • No DOI • Title not sentence case • Includes issue • ‘Of’ in journal title capitalized
- 6. InfoTrac Academic OneFile • No DOI • Month & Issue • Pages • URL
- 7. ProQuest PsycArticles via RefWorks • DOI • doi:10…. OR • http://dx.doi... • Issue
- 8. Google Scholar • No DOI • Issue
- 9. EndNote • Unedited Import from Web of Science • Not sentence case title • Issue
- 10. EndNote Edited Record • Need to know using APA and pages numbered sequentially so leave out issue number • Correct! (For 6th ed.)
- 11. Mendeley Online • No DOI • Journal Title Case and Adds ‘The’ • Issue
- 12. Mendeley Desktop • ‘The’ in Journal Title • Issue • Edit record to remove issue and ‘The’ • Correct!
- 13. Conclusions • They All Get Close • They All Get It Wrong • … Unless You Know Enough to Fix It