Thank you for the contributions to the discussion

[Guest guest]

Thank you Dr. Naman and Varun for your valuable inputs. Discussion becomes more

and more interesting when such inputs are added. I hope the NetRUM members are

going to utilize this opportunity maximally and add further into the discussion

going on.

Mendeley desktop:

It is also a free software that can be downloaded which can generate references

in all styles like AMA,Vancouver etc.You can download it at:

http://www.mendeley.com/download-mendeley-desktop/

I feel that to download such softwares we must have extra-hard disks attached to

the laptop or pc or otherwise there are chances of slowing down of your comp.

VANCOUVER STYLE OF REFERENCING–

1. Intext Citing

2. References-- Journal articles ,Books,Conferences ,Electronic

sources,CD-ROM/DVD,Journal article on the Internet ,Book/Monograph on the

Internet,Web site

3. Abbrevations

In-text Citing

A citation is an acknowledgement in your manuscript of references that support

your work which is given an Arabic number in Vancouver style that correlates

with a source in your reference list.

A number is allocated to a source in the order in which it is cited in the text.

If the source is referred to again, the same number is used.

e.g.--Renin-angiotensin system participates significantly in the

patho-physiology of hypertension, congestive heart failure, myocardial

infarction and diabetic nephropathy. [1]

Numbering ---in text citing

1. ( ), [ ] Or Superscript or a combination [1].

2. For( : ) colon & ( ; )----semicolon--number should be at the left

3. For. (fullstop) number can be either placed at the right or left---depending

on the journal publisher preference.

4. When multiple references are cited in the text at a given place, use a

hyphen to join the first and last numbers . Use commas (without spaces) to

separate non-inclusive numbers in a multiple citation e.g. (2,3,4,5,7,10) is

abbreviated to (2-5,7,10).

5. Do not use a hyphen if there are no citation numbers in between that support

your statement e.g. (1-2).

Dr.Aditi Chaturvedi

[Guest guest]

Thank you Dr. Aditi for giving nice details. Knowledge of details of ways

to cite a references is per-requisite to use such softwares. I strongly

recommend all the NetRUM members to learn how to site manually first.

Softwares are easy and with that any body can cite a reference. But these

small details will differentiate an expert from anybody.

Regarding Mandeley, it is also a good tool which is small compare to

Endnote or reference manager. It wont affect your laptop speed as it

occupies very small portion space on your harddisk (~25Mb). But what is

provides is very good sync with your online Mandeley id. So you can see

all your saved search and reference from anywhere in the world on any

computer.

On Mon, 25 Jul 2011 09:25:11 +0530, dtchaturvedi

<dtchaturvedi@...> wrote:

> Thank you Dr. Naman and Varun for your valuable inputs. Discussion

> becomes more and more interesting when such inputs are added. I hope the

> NetRUM members are going to utilize this opportunity maximally and add

> further into the discussion going on.

>

> Mendeley desktop:

>

> It is also a free software that can be downloaded which can generate

> references in all styles like AMA,Vancouver etc.You can download it at:

> http://www.mendeley.com/download-mendeley-desktop/

> I feel that to download such softwares we must have extra-hard disks

> attached to the laptop or pc or otherwise there are chances of slowing

> down of your comp.

>

>

> VANCOUVER STYLE OF REFERENCING–

> 1. Intext Citing

>

> 2. References-- Journal articles ,Books,Conferences ,Electronic

> sources,CD-ROM/DVD,Journal article on the Internet ,Book/Monograph on

> the Internet,Web site

>

> 3. Abbrevations

>

> In-text Citing

>

> A citation is an acknowledgement in your manuscript of references that

> support your work which is given an Arabic number in Vancouver style

> that correlates with a source in your reference list.

>

> A number is allocated to a source in the order in which it is cited in

> the text. If the source is referred to again, the same number is used.

> e.g.--Renin-angiotensin system participates significantly in the

> patho-physiology of hypertension, congestive heart failure, myocardial

> infarction and diabetic nephropathy. [1]

>

> Numbering ---in text citing

> 1. ( ), [ ] Or Superscript or a combination [1].

> 2. For( : ) colon & ( ; )----semicolon--number should be at the left

> 3. For. (fullstop) number can be either placed at the right or

> left---depending on the journal publisher preference.

> 4. When multiple references are cited in the text at a given place, use

> a hyphen to join the first and last numbers . Use commas (without

> spaces) to separate non-inclusive numbers in a multiple citation e.g.

> (2,3,4,5,7,10) is abbreviated to (2-5,7,10).

>

> 5. Do not use a hyphen if there are no citation numbers in between that

> support your statement e.g. (1-2).

>

> Dr.Aditi Chaturvedi

>

>

>

>

>

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[Guest guest]

Dear Naman and Aditi, et al,I have some experience with Mendeley having worked with this reference management system since its very first version and now as its one of the university advisors. Mendeley is a very powerful reference management system whose features go beyond just as a citation manager.

Those of you who use Mendeley know that Mendeley allows you to extract meta data from PDFs of articles, and store that information. It does this very well. In addition, you can use Mendeley to search for related articles. But beyond these features, Mendeley allows you to tag and add notes to your PDFs and annotate the PDFs. It is here that this reference management system when combined with a good mind mapping application can become an extremely powerful tool for quickly developing summaries and reviews.

Consider this. If you have a software such as Sciplore Mindmapping (check out at http://www.sciplore.org) installed on your computer, and if you can combine this with your Mendeley account or a Mendeley desktop system, you can rapidly develop a very powerful system of writing papers. The workflow goes something like this.

You start with a search or a well formulated question >> Search extensively and get all PDFs that you can get and store them in Mendeley (relevant PDFs from where you are going to develop your review) >> Annotate on these PDFs and add notes as much as you can >> Store the annotated copies of the PDFs into a specific folder on your hard drive and name the folder appropriately >> Open Sciplore Mindmapping Application >> Add the Folder to your Mindmapping Application >> In an instant you have your annotations and bookmarks available in the form of branches in the Mind Map Tree >> From here on, your work of writing your review is simplified as you can either copy and paste the branches to any text document or you can export the mind map to a word file and work on the outline

There are excellent tutorials to cover these aspects of writing your research papers. A very detailed explanation can be found in the following website http://sciplore.org/blog/2010/03/02/how-to-write-a-phd-thesis/

I'd like to end this post with a note that it is desirable to learn how to enter references and citations manually. If a good software is available that can minimize errors and maximize efficiency, then by all means one should learn the software and use it. We live in an age when hard disk spaces are available in plenty, and one need not worry too much about running out of hard disk space; additionally, cloud services provide opportunities of extending your storage capacitiy. There are services such as Google Docs and Dropbox that have made the job of managing files online easier.

Best wishes,Arin Basu " There's a crack, a crack in everything.That's how the light gets in. " (Leonard Cohen)

On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 6:33 PM, Naman Shah <naman_h@...> wrote:

 

Thank you Dr. Aditi for giving nice details. Knowledge of details of ways

to cite a references is per-requisite to use such softwares. I strongly

recommend all the NetRUM members to learn how to site manually first.

Softwares are easy and with that any body can cite a reference. But these

small details will differentiate an expert from anybody.

Regarding Mandeley, it is also a good tool which is small compare to

Endnote or reference manager. It wont affect your laptop speed as it

occupies very small portion space on your harddisk (~25Mb). But what is

provides is very good sync with your online Mandeley id. So you can see

all your saved search and reference from anywhere in the world on any

computer.

On Mon, 25 Jul 2011 09:25:11 +0530, dtchaturvedi

<dtchaturvedi@...> wrote:

> Thank you Dr. Naman and Varun for your valuable inputs. Discussion

> becomes more and more interesting when such inputs are added. I hope the

> NetRUM members are going to utilize this opportunity maximally and add

> further into the discussion going on.

>

> Mendeley desktop:

>

> It is also a free software that can be downloaded which can generate

> references in all styles like AMA,Vancouver etc.You can download it at:

> http://www.mendeley.com/download-mendeley-desktop/

> I feel that to download such softwares we must have extra-hard disks

> attached to the laptop or pc or otherwise there are chances of slowing

> down of your comp.

>

>

> VANCOUVER STYLE OF REFERENCING–

> 1. Intext Citing

>

> 2. References-- Journal articles ,Books,Conferences ,Electronic

> sources,CD-ROM/DVD,Journal article on the Internet ,Book/Monograph on

> the Internet,Web site

>

> 3. Abbrevations

>

> In-text Citing

>

> A citation is an acknowledgement in your manuscript of references that

> support your work which is given an Arabic number in Vancouver style

> that correlates with a source in your reference list.

>

> A number is allocated to a source in the order in which it is cited in

> the text. If the source is referred to again, the same number is used.

> e.g.--Renin-angiotensin system participates significantly in the

> patho-physiology of hypertension, congestive heart failure, myocardial

> infarction and diabetic nephropathy. [1]

>

> Numbering ---in text citing

> 1. ( ), [ ] Or Superscript or a combination [1].

> 2. For( : ) colon & ( ; )----semicolon--number should be at the left

> 3. For. (fullstop) number can be either placed at the right or

> left---depending on the journal publisher preference.

> 4. When multiple references are cited in the text at a given place, use

> a hyphen to join the first and last numbers . Use commas (without

> spaces) to separate non-inclusive numbers in a multiple citation e.g.

> (2,3,4,5,7,10) is abbreviated to (2-5,7,10).

>

> 5. Do not use a hyphen if there are no citation numbers in between that

> support your statement e.g. (1-2).

>

> Dr.Aditi Chaturvedi

>

>

>

>

>

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