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END498: Research Projects in Environmental Design : EndNote/Literature Review

Last Updated: May 21, 2024 2:59 PM

EndNote Basics

EndNote Basics Guide: for training videos, adding references, working in word, and more.

When downloading EndNote from the Libraries' webpage, make sure you login and your name appears on the right side of the page. You can go to Everything, make sure you are signed in and then go to the EndNote page to download the software. If you are still having trouble downloading the software, switch your browser to FireFox.

APA Style Citations

Citing a Book or Article - use "citation" link in Catalog or Everything record:

Almost every database will also have a cite button and will display the article in APA style. You can send an email to yourself with the correct citation style.

Interviews:
"Interviews fall into three categories: published interviews, personal interviews, and research participant interviews. However, only published interviews require a formal citation in your reference list." Purdue Owl

" A personal interview is considered personal communication and does not require a formal citation in your reference list. Any communication that cannot be directly retrieved by a reader is considered “personal communication. You do not include personal communication in your reference list; instead, parenthetically cite the communicator's name, the phrase "personal communication," and the date of the communication in your main text only.
(E. Robbins, personal communication, January 4, 2019).
If you reference personal communication in a footnote, as is common practice in certain fields and publications, you can document it in the same way. 1. P. Smith (personal communication, November 3, 2019) also claimed that many of her students had difficulties with APA style." Purdue Owl

Citing Tables and Figures

Informative information on Tables and Charts: Purdue Owl

APA sample figures:  Sample figures illustrate how to set up figures in APA Style. Note that any kind of visual display that is not a table is considered a figure.

PolicyMap:
Format: Title of map, dates. PolicyMap, permalink URL (based on data from ; date accessed).
Examples: Availability of residential fiber to the end user (fiber optic) internet access in 2017. PolicyMap, https://plcy.mp/4NW2zSv (based on data from FCC Broadband Deployment Data; Accessed 29 September 2018).

Social Explorer:
Report: Data Table Name (Survey Year, Survey Name). In SocialExplorer.com. Retrieved from
Example: SE:T8. Age (Census 2010). In SocialExplorer.com. Retrieved July 25, 2018, from https://www.socialexplorer.com/tables/C2010/R11764616

Map: Title of Social Explorer Map [Map]. In SocialExplorer.com. (Survey Year, Survey Name) Retrieved from
Example: Population Density (Per Sq. Mile) [Map]. In SocialExplorer.com. ACS 2016 (5-Year Estimates) Retrieved July 25, 2018, from https://www.socialexplorer.com/8e62e93dee/view

 

Annotated Bibliography/Literature Review

Annotated Bibliography: an annotated bibliography is a list of citations to books, articles, and documents. Each citation is followed by a brief (usually about 150 words) descriptive and evaluative paragraph, the annotation. The purpose of the annotation is to inform the reader of the relevance, accuracy, and quality of the sources cited.


Literature Review: it is a product and a process.

As a product, it is a carefully written examination, interpretation, evaluation, and synthesis of the publisher literature related to your topic. It focuses on what is known about your topic and what methodologies, models, theories, and concepts have been applied to it by others.

The process is what is involved in conducting a review of the literature. 

  • It is ongoing
  • It is iterative (repetitive)
  • It involves searching for and finding relevant literature.
  • It includes keeping track of your references and preparing and formatting them for the bibliography of your thesis.

About EndNote

EndNote: a software tool for managing references. EndNote helps you organize bibliographic references to journal articles, book chapters, Web sites and other information sources. References can be downloaded from UB Libraries' databases directly into a personal EndNote database known as a Library in EndNote terminology. Bibliographies can be created and formatted in over a thousand standard style formats including APA, MLA, Chicago, Vancouver, and others..;

Big Picture: EndNote Library functions.


Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL): a detailed guide to APA, MLA, and Chicago citation styles, access "Research and Citation" on the left to for citation style help.