Research Guides: Ecology: Organizing and Citing

Using Bibliographic Management Tools to Organize

EndNote
EndNote is an application that imports citations from your searches in web databases and helps you organize your references. It works with Microsoft Word helping you create in-text citations, footnotes, and bibliographies. Available through an ITS license for a fee. Guide to using EndNote.

EndNote Online
NOTE: You must create a free personal account with Web of Science to access EndNote Online.
EndNote Online is a Web-based reference organizer and writing solution, fullly integrated with Web of Science. It is the ideal, time-saving solution for students and researchers.

Open Source / Free Tools

Mendeley
A free reference manager and academic social network. Make your own fully-searchable library in seconds, cite as you write, and read and annotate your PDFs on any device. Guide to using Mendeley.
Zotero
A free web-browser plugin to help you collect, organize, cite, and share your research sources. Guide to using Zotero.

Citation Styles

Scientific Style and Format: The CSE Manual for Authors, Editors, and Publishers
Call Number: Ref T11 .S386 2006
Publication Date: 2006

Council of Science Editors (CSE) Style Guide (from The Ohio State University Libraries)
This guide is based on Scientific style and format: the CSE Manual for authors, editors, and publishers, 7th edition. [Print copy of complete guide available - see below]

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Why Cite?

Nānā i ke kumu

Citing the work that supports your research is both an ethical issue and a legal issue.

The ethics of citing is based on the scholarly tradition of giving credit for information and ideas that are not one's own. Science has a long tradition of acknowledging priority through citations. You have the ethical responsibility to cite all works that were used to support your research, to give credit to the earlier work and to provide a clear path for those who follow in your footsteps.

Or, to put it another way:

I ulu no ka lālā i ke kumu.
The branches grow because of the trunk.
Without our ancestors we would not be here.*

An example of some legal aspects of citing can be found in Copyrights, Title 17 of the U.S. Code, which describes the legal protections of authors' and creators' intellectual property rights within U.S. law.

*Pukui MK. 1983. ʻŌlelo Noʻeau : Hawaiian Proverbs & Poetical Sayings. Honolulu: Bishop Museum Press. [1261] p.137.

What is Plagiarism?

Plagiarism is defined as:

"The action or practice of taking someone else's work, idea, etc., and passing it off as one's own; literary theft"

"plagiarism, n." OED Online. Oxford University Press, March 2015. Web. 21 May 2015. Available from: http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/144939

See the University of Hawaiʻi Student Conduct Code for more information.