That's Great

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THAT¡¦S GREAT

Thank you so much Arin and Naman for the contributions. Isn¡¦t it great that we

have a platform were gathering information is so easy. Thank you Thawani Sir.

Excellent learning, perhaps we can have a full discussion separately on

reference software and how to use them.

Let¡¦s continue further with our discussion because before we jump to software

we must have at least a fair idea of small mistakes that we can commit in

referencing and manual management of references is also important so that we are

through with the basics.

Having covered in text Citing let¡¦s discuss References in Vancouver referencing

style.

1. In text Citing

2. References-- journal articles ,book, conferences ,electronic

sources,CD-ROM/DVD, journal article on the Internet ,book/monograph on the

Internet,web site

3. Abbreviations

References are listed in numerical order in the Reference List at the end of the

paper: eg.

1. SD, , AD. Organ donation. N Engl J Med. 2001; 657:230-5.

2. Brown JG. Asphyxiation. Med J Aust. 2003; 432:120-4.

HOW TO CITE REFERENCES FROM JOURNAL ARTICLES?

1. Author's surname Initials, Author's surname Initials.

2. Title of article.

3. Title of Journal. [abbreviated]

4. Year of publication Month date;

5. Volume Number(Issue number):page numbers.

e.g.

line HA, Mader TJ, Ali FM, Cocchi MN. Determining pre-test probability of

DVT: clinical intuition vs. validated scoring systems. N Engl J Med. 2003

;21(2):161-2

1. Author's surname Initials, Author's surname Initials---line HA,Mader

TJ,Ali FM,Cocchi MN.

2. Title of article-----Determining pretest probability of DVT:clinical

intuition vs.validated scoring systems.

3. Title of Journal [abbreviated] --- N Engl J Med.

Year of publication Month date---2003;

4. Volume Number(Issue number)---21(2):

5. Page numbers 161-2

Please note

„O After the first 6 authors you may add a et al.

„O Note the placement of full stop, semicolon and colon in the references.

„O If the journal has continuous page numbering, you may omit the month / issue

number but if it is a non-continuous pagination journal (rare now a days) then

you should include the month, date with the year and issue number along with the

volume number.

„O Abbreviations used in referencing have to be standard abbreviations and not

what you feel like.

IMPORTANT POINT-----Journal titles are abbreviated as per standard norms in:

PubMed Journals Database.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=journals

Aditi