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Physics and Astronomy Graduate Student Library Orientation: Citation

Why do we cite?

Scholarship is a conversation. When you cite, you are referring to another's work and giving them proper credit. You are giving your readers the opportunity to delve deeper into the topic by providing your references. You are also showing that you are building on scientific research from the past and how your ideas fit into the future!

Making links work from off campus: UI Libraries’ proxy server address

To make sure University of Iowa users can access the article away from campus, copy our proxy server address (login.proxy.lib.uiowa.edu/login?url=) into the URL so that the whole thing looks like https://login.proxy.lib.uiowa.edu/login?url=https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ydbio.2019.07.014.  This will trigger the website to ask for HawkIDs and passwords to allow access to protected content.

Reference Managers

Proxy Link Generator

1. Copy and paste your source URL here:

2. Click this:

3. Copy and use the resulting link:

For assistance accessing library resources from off-campus, please contact the Sciences Library at lib-sciences@uiowa.edu or (319) 335-3083.

A guide to EndNote for scientists

EndNote Desktop and EndNote Basic are two versions of software for organizing and formatting citations.  Full information for setting it up and using it with sciences databases, and for using it with BibTeX, can be found in the guide below. 

Sciences Reference and Outreach Librarian

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Carol Hollier
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Contact:
Mon & Thur: B20H MacLean
Tues & Fri: 450 Van Allen
319-467-4535