Citation provides information regarding the source of the data. A PDF copy of each paper should be available through Mendeley.
- Select one of the starred papers from your project's Mendeley folder.
- The data to be entered should be specified in the notes associated with the paper in Mendeley
- Identify (highlight or underline) the data (means and statistics) that you will enter
- Enter citation information
- Data entry form{target="_blank"} for a new
site:
BETYdb→Citations→new - Author: Input the first author’s last name only
- Year: Input the year the paper was published, not submitted, reviewed, or anything else
- Fill out Title, Journal, Vol, & Pg. For unknown information, input 'NA'
- DOI: The 'digital object identifier'. If DOI is available, PDF and URL are optional. This can be located in the article or in the article website. Use Ctrl+F 'DOI' to find it. Some older articles do not have a DOI. When entering the DOI, don't include a "doi:" prefix; the DOI should start with "10.".
- URL: Web address of the article, preferably from publisher's website. Include the
"http://"or"https://"prefix. If no on-line version is available, but some other information about how to obtain the citation is available, you may use a parenthesized note in lieu of a bona fide URL, e.g. "(e-mail Dr. No at [email protected] for a written copy)". - PDF: URL of the PDF of the article. Include the
"http://"or"https://"prefix. (A parenthesized note is allowed here as well.)
- Data entry form{target="_blank"} for a new
site:
