RESEARCH TOOLS

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Citation Management
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Citation Management

Academic Honesty*

Part of the value of your degree from Global University lies in your standard of academic honesty and integrity. It is important that you understand how academic misconduct (cheating) is defined, your rights as a student, and the expectations of the University.

You have the right to expect that you will be graded fairly, but you also have an obligation to conduct your academic work with honesty and integrity according to University standards. Academic honesty requires that the course work (reports, examinations, papers) you present to an instructor honestly and accurately represent your own academic efforts.

Academic misconduct occurs when you: Plagiarism means presenting the words or ideas of others without giving credit. You should know the principles of plagiarism and the correct rules for citing sources. If your paper implies that you are the originator of ideas, they must in fact be your own. If you are unsure about the proper way to give credit to sources, consult the appropriate Global University Form & Style Guide (see below) or The Writing Center.

* (Adapted from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Office of the Dean of Students.)

Global University Form & Style Guides

Undergraduate Form and Style Guide
A stylistic writing guide for undergraduate Course Projects and Collateral Reading Assignments.

Graduate Studies Form and Style Guide
A stylistic writing guide for graduate level students, especially those writing proposals and theses.

EndNote

EndNote is a bibliographic management software program that allows you to collect and organize citations and insert them into a word processing program in formatted bibliographic styles. With EndNote you can search online bibliographic databases, organize your references and images, and create bibliographies and figure lists instantly! Instead of spending hours typing bibliographies or using index cards to organize your references, do it the easy way by using EndNote.

How To Purchase EndNote Software

You can purchase the EndNote software for immediate download from Global University at a discounted price of $65.00.  Please specify Windows or Mac.  Contact the Global University Business Office or send your request to:

Global University
EndNote Purchase
1211 S. Glenstone Avenue
Springfield, Missouri 65804
USA

Or you may purchase the software at regular price directly from Thomson Reuters.

Getting Started with EndNote

Please download EndNote's Getting Started Guide. (Also available on your EndNote CD under "extras"). This guide will provide instructions on how to set your preferences for the program and how to use EndNote with your word processor.

Training Options

Thomson Reuters offers both interactive online tutorials in EndNote basics and and live Webinar classes. The online tutorials are always available. To participate in a Webinar class you must submit a request form available on EndNote's training site.

The Global University Library also offers an interactive tutorial on EndNote basics. Click on the "Open the Interactive Tutorial" link on the Welcome Page of the Online Research Center.

EndNote Citation Style for Global University

Download the Global University citation output style to your EndNote software program.

Zotero

"Zotero is an easy-to-use yet powerful research tool that helps you gather, organize, and analyze sources (citations, full texts, web pages, images, and other objects), and lets you share the results of your research in a variety of ways. An extension to the popular open-source web browser Firefox, Zotero includes the best parts of older reference manager software (like EndNote) - the ability to store author, title, and publication fields and to export that information as formatted references - and the best parts of modern software and web applications (like iTunes and del.icio.us), such as the ability to interact, tag, and search in advanced ways." --Zotero.org

Here's some of what Zotero can do for you and your research: Get Zotero