Welcome to the Biomedical Sciences subject guide. Use the tabs at the left of the page to find information about different resources, databases and referencing.
Cite Them Right Online explains and demonstrates how to cite, both in-text and in a reference list or bibliography, a wide range of material types: books, journal articles, lecture notes, law reports, web pages, computer games, live performances...
Get to Cite Them Right Online from its DiscoverEd record.
Harvard (author-date) is shown throughout but many material types are demonstrated in other citation styles too: APA, Chicago, MHRA, MLA, OSCOLA, Vancouver.
General information on referencing and plagiarism is also presented.
EndNoteEndNote is supported by the University and available as desktop run software and as a web application. The desktop version has the full range of features and functions. Both versions provide automatic citing in Microsoft Word.
The desktop version is installed on the open access lab computers where the "Cite While You Write" plug-in, for use with a desktop library or an online group, is already available on Microsoft Word. Staff and students can download copies of Endnote for installing on their own machines for free.
EndNote desktop can be downloaded onto most University machines for free.
Software Services' EndNote for Schools has more information.
For personal use on your own machines;
Staff and students can download copies of Endnote for installing on their own machines for free.
Software Services' information on buying personal copies of EndNote desktop.
Register via Web of Science for more file saving space.
Guide to registering for EndNote online (incl. Cite While You Write plug-in)
Then go directly: www.myendnoteweb.com
Citing and referencing demonstrates breadth of research and helps avoid plagiarism. To understand more about plagiarism and how and why to avoid it, see the University of Edinburgh's Institute for Academic Development's guide:
Reference management software lets you store, annotate and group references and also automatically creates citations and reference lists in your documents.
There are a number of different reference management software tools available. For help in deciding which is right for you, please see our software comparison table from the link below:
Reference Management tools - a few option and comparisons
For more information there is a self-enrol Learn course where you can learn about four of the most popular options : Endnote, Mendeley, Zotero and Citavi.
There is support and help available from staff on using EndNote, desktop and online.
The Digital Skills and Training programme includes workshops and webinars on EndNote for which anyone can sign up and for which the workbooks are sometimes available for people to go through themselves in their own time.
Digital Skills and Training website
Links to some of the Digital Skills' workbooks
Your Academic Support Librarian is another source of advice.
