Adding a Citation

Citation provides information regarding the source of the data. This section should allow us to locate and access the paper of interest.

A pdf copy of each paper should be available through Mendeley.

  1. Select one of the starred papers from your projects Mendeley folder.
  2. The data to be entered should be specified in the notes associated with the paper in Mendeley
  3. Identify (highlight or underline) the data (means and statistics) that you will enter
  4. Enter citation information (fig:citations_new)
    1. https://www.betydb.org/sites/new Data entery form for a new site: BETYdb $ \rightarrow$ Citations $ \rightarrow$new
    2. Author Input the first author's last name only
    3. Year Input the year the paper was published, not submitted, reviewed, or anything else
    4. For unknown information, input NA
    5. URL web address of the article, preferably from publishers website
    6. PDF URL of the PDF of the article
    7. DOI is the 'digital object identifier'. If DOI is available, PDF and URL are optional. This can be located in the article or in the article website. Use Ctrl+F 'DOI' to find it. Some older articles do not have a DOI.

Figure 1: https://www.betydb.org/citations/new Form for entering a new citation.
Image citations_new

David 2011-10-07