Citation Tools and Reference Management Software for Academic Writing

GIS Business ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (6) ◽  
pp. 586-596
Author(s):  
Dr. C. Vijai ◽  
Dr. K. Natarajan ◽  
Mr. M. Elayaraja
Keyword(s):  
Academic Writing ◽  
Journal Article ◽  
Management Software ◽  
Reference Tools

The correct citation of references is an honor to original ideas of previous authors and to avoid plagiarism. Currently, researchers can easily find, cite and store references using citation management software. This paper is discussed how to use popular citation management software (Zotero •Mendeley •EndNote •RefWorks •Citavi •PaperPile •JabRef •Papers •Docear) and reference tools in academic writing. The citation management software is very helpful for academic writing. Exactly what the name suggests: Reference management software used to manage the references in a document and information about a publication,book, journal article, video, etc. This study is based on the available sources from various university online libraries worldwide. This study very uses full for researchers, authors, reviewers, editors and the researcher community.

Citation Tools and Reference Management Software for Academic Writing

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Vijai ◽  
K. Natarajan ◽  
M. Elayaraja
Keyword(s):  
Academic Writing ◽  
Management Software

scholarly journals Flashlight: using Bizup’s BEAM to illuminate the rhetoric of research

2015 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 98-111
Author(s):  
Kate Rubick
Keyword(s):  
Academic Writing ◽  
Liberal Arts ◽  
Rhetorical Criticism ◽  
Journal Article ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Library Instruction ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Writing Assignments ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Academic Faculty

Purpose – This paper aims to demonstrate how a librarian at a liberal arts college partnered with a professor of rhetoric and media studies to teach students methods to classify sources using Bizup’s BEAM. Design/methodology/approach – Students in rhetorical criticism, read the Bizup article on BEAM. The library instruction included a discussion of the article and an application exercise where students classified cited references in a peer-reviewed journal article using BEAM. Findings – BEAM was a valuable addition to the rhetorical criticism course. The application exercise used in the library instruction session introduced BEAM as a tool to be used in reading and evaluating sources. Students were able to apply what they learned as they selected, deciphered and interpreted sources of information for use in their academic writing. Practical implications – Librarians teaching in a variety of academic disciplines may use or adapt BEAM as a tool for helping students learn to critically evaluate information sources, as they read texts and as they engage in research-based writing assignments. Originality/value – This work showcases how librarians using BEAM can extend library teaching beyond traditional bibliographic instruction and into the realm of critical inquiry. It also demonstrates how librarians can use BEAM to initiate conversations with academic faculty about information literacy. It also contributes to an emerging area of scholarship involving the use of BEAM to teach source evaluation.

An Approach Towards Establishing Reference Linking in Desktop Reference Manager

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (03) ◽  
pp. 1850034
Author(s):  
Mandava Kranthi Kiran ◽  
K. Thammi Reddy
Keyword(s):  
Essential Feature ◽  
Journal Article ◽  
Semantic Search ◽  
Personal Computers ◽  
Journal Articles ◽  
Digital Form ◽  
Management Software ◽  
Research Journal ◽  
Reference Manager ◽  
Number Of Publications

The growth in the availability of number of research journal articles in a digital form is explosive. So more and more researchers have turned towards the publications in digital form, download and maintain them in their standalone personal computers. This increase in a number of publications in digital form has made it difficult for researchers, who have to face the burden of managing, linking and searching the research journal articles on their personal computers. Many reference manager softwares like RefWorks, Zotero, EndNote, and Mendeley are available in the market, which provide an easy way for a researcher to organize and manage the research journal articles. These above said reference managers take the help of extracted basic metadata such as Title, Author, Abstract, etc. to organize the journal articles and maintain a link between them. But the essential feature of “reference linking” is not focused. Reference linking is a feature where a cited article can be tracked from the article citing it, from a large volume of journal article collection. This feature is mostly available for online, but not for offline standalone personal computers. This paper addresses this problem in detail, explores the existing reference linking features which exist for online scholarlty literature, presents the algorithms for retrieving the metadata along with references at the end of each journal article and a way for storing and linking them to the full texts present in the reference management software that works on a standalone personal computer, using semantic technology. A reference management software “sodhanaRef” which includes the reference linking feature and semantic search has been built along with an explanation about its architecture.

scholarly journals Lexical Cohesion Analysis On Scopus Indexed-Journal Entitled “A New Control Method For Power Based On Dynamic Evolution Control “

Epigram ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-36
Author(s):  
Sri Wahyono ◽  
Nur Hasyim ◽  
Ade Sukma Mulya
Keyword(s):  
Academic Writing ◽  
Control Method ◽  
Journal Article ◽  
Data Sources ◽  
Dynamic Evolution ◽  
Semantic Concept ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
Lexical Cohesion ◽  
Editorial Boards ◽  
Evolution Control

Cohesion is a semantic concept and part of the system of a language. The language can be orally or written. One of the indicators of good discourse (written) is having good cohesion and coherence aspect. This study is entitled Lexical Cohesion Analysis on Scopus-Indexed-Journal entitled “A New Control Method for Power based on Dynamic Evolution Control“. The aim of this study is to identify and describe the lexical cohesion in the Scopus-indexed article journal. This study is a qualitative research. The data sources in this study an article Scopus indexed-journal was obtained by purposive sampling. Furthermore, analysis of the data was done by identifying and classifying the data that related to cohesion, based on the theory of Halliday and Hasan (1976) and also analyzing used Spradley (1980). Based on the analysis, it was found five things related to cohesion and coherence. First, lexical cohesion devices which are used consist of repetition, synonymy, antonymy, hyponymy, and meronymy. The most frequent lexical cohesion used is repetition. Therefore, it can be of an interest to the (future) writer or researcher who are involved in writing journal. The study concludes that lexical cohesion determines writers’ tones in writing article and this ultimately contributes significantly enough in constructing persuasion and strong desire to persuade editorial boards of the journal to accept the article. It has also been highlighted that the findings of this study could be broaden in grammatical cohesion, and also be beneficial to researchers and ESL/EFL learners especially in persuasive and academic writing. Those aspects and factors can be considered to certain paper or journal article whether rejected or accepted in Scopus-indexed journal.

A diachronic keyword analysis in research article titles and cited article titles in applied linguistics from 1990 to 2016

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 84-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wenhsien Yang
Keyword(s):  
Academic Writing ◽  
Domain Knowledge ◽  
Current Knowledge ◽  
Applied Linguistics ◽  
Journal Article ◽  
Writing Skills ◽  
Article Title ◽  
Research Article ◽  
Challenging Research ◽  
Trends Over Time

Abstract Due to the competitiveness in academic publication and the emerging heavy reliance on Internet search engines to expand visibility and readership and to promote publications, writing an attractive and appropriate research article title is essential. In addition, titles may be the first aspect of papers evaluated by journal editors in their screening of submissions in order to meet the requirements of the target audience. These demands call for the use of various academic writing skills, and thus make writing titles challenging. Research on structuring journal article titles has been extensively conducted across disciplines, but what keywords (i.e. lexical items highly distinctive of the titles) are employed to reflect current knowledge and receive high citations is still under-researched. To bridge this gap, the present corpus-driven research collected and investigated titles written in leading applied linguistics journals over 25 years to identify their keywords. These were compared to different time spans to study the significance and relevance of the domain knowledge. The most frequently cited articles were also selected to study how their titles relate to keyword use and to investigate their impact on the domain knowledge. The results reveal that keywords vary in accordance with the research trends over time. In addition, while titles are becoming longer, more keywords are employed by authors in order to expand the paper’s visibility and enhance the citations. The pedagogical implications for teaching academic writing, and suggestions for researching this appendant genre are provided.

scholarly journals Disciplinary Recognized Self-Presence: Self-Mention Used With Hedges and Boosters in PhD Students’ Research Writing

SAGE Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 215824402110054
Author(s):  
Jingjing Wang ◽  
Liangjing Zeng
Keyword(s):  
Academic Writing ◽  
Journal Article ◽  
Discursive Practice ◽  
Research Writing ◽  
Pure Science ◽  
Student Writers ◽  
Research Findings

Despite the existing extensive research on stance markers such as hedges, boosters, and self-mention in academic writing, few studies, however, examined the co-occurrence of these stance markers to help authors project their identities in writing. In this study, we examine how self-mention with boosters and hedges are used by writers of different groups to manifest authorial presence and what functions they realize in research writing. Two self-compiled corpora were constructed to compare the discursive practice between Chinese PhD students and journal article writers from four disciplines in hard applied and hard pure science. In general, student writers use fewer self-mention with boosters but more self-mention with hedges than expert writers. An examination of the rhetorical functions of these devices shows that both expert and student writers employ most self-mention with boosters for presenting research findings, but students are more inclined to invest self-mention with boosters than expert writers when describing research procedures or elaborating arguments. Meanwhile, self-mention with hedges are mostly used for elaborating arguments, but compared with expert writers, students seem to overly obscure their presence in this function.

The familiarity and use of reference management software by LIS faculties in Iran

2014 ◽  
Vol 115 (11/12) ◽  
pp. 558-570 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maryam Sarrafzadeh ◽  
Afsaneh Hazeri
Keyword(s):  
Academic Writing ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Library And Information Science ◽  
Multiple Choice Questions ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Management Software ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Software Packages ◽  
Descriptive Survey

Purpose – The purpose of the present paper is to investigate the familiarity and use of reference management software (RMS) by library and information science (LIS) faculties in Iran, and aims to identify the possible factors that lead to the application and choice of this software. Design/methodology/approach – This is a descriptive survey. Data collected by a Web-based questionnaire include both open-ended and multiple-choice questions. The questionnaires were distributed among LIS discussion groups and were sent to the e-mails of LIS faculties. Findings – Results reveal that over half of the respondents had a good familiarity with the various citation software packages and knew how to use them; 35 per cent of respondents have learned how to use these packages through formal education. “Endnote” is the most popular software among respondents. Respondents confirm the need to offer some educational programs on how to use these software packages to bachelor students, and nominated the “Academic Writing” course as the proper place for teaching this topic. Originality/value – If due attention is given to the importance of referencing in academic writing and to establishing criteria for the acceptance of papers for publication, teaching students how to carry out referencing and how to use RMS packages for this purpose will aid the promotion of scientific products. To determine whether LIS educators are able to teach the use of RMS packages, it is necessary to examine the extent to which they are familiar with these programs.

An Inside Look at the Journal Article Reporting Standards (JARS) [transcript]

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marla Bonner ◽  
David Frost ◽  
Harris Cooper
Keyword(s):  
Journal Article ◽  
Reporting Standards
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