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Reference Management

You can save a lot of time using a reference management tool. Once you have some references in your reference library, they're easily placed in articles or power points, and the list of references will generate automatically. References can be downloaded from research article - or bibliographic databases, or manually created by the user.

SDU have brought licence to the software program EndNote for employees and students to use. For installation please follow one of these guides:

If you need help, you can sign up for one of SDU Library courses or you can contact the EndNote Support by mail.

If you want to know more about Endnote here and now, you can visit EndNote's official training guide.

There are other reference management tools, e.g. Zotero og Mendeley, whose basic versions you can download for free from the Internet. The University Library only offers general support for these tools.

When writing academia, one have to live up to certain demands about citing and refering to the sources correctly. There are many standards to choose from: Vancouver, APA, MLA are just a few. Every field of study has it's preferences - and there is often an organisation behind the specific style. If you need help for a specific style, you can find many guides and tutorials online, but it is always adviceable to go to the official source. Below you can see which styles are connected to the different fields of study, and you can find links to the University Library reference resources.

Reference styles

ABBREVIATION FIELD INSTITUTION TITLE FORMAT TYPE
AMA / JAMA Medicine, HEALTH American Medical Association AMA Manual of Style E-book Numerical1
APA 7th Interdisc. HUM+ SOC.SC. +HEALTH, Psychology, Education, Communication and Cultural studies. American Psychological Association Publication manual of the American Psychological Association 7th

APA Style 7th Blog

APA 7th-Guiden
Book, order via Summon




Blog




SDUB's guide about APA 7th in Danish
Author/Year
CBE Biology Council of Biology Editors Style Manual Committee Scientific style and format: The CBE manual for authors, editors, and publishers Book, order via Summon Numerical(1) or Author/Year
CBPA SCIENCE Comparative Biochemistry & Physiology Part A: Molecular and Integrative Physiology

[Comp Biochem Phys-part A]
Guideline for authors Website Author/Year
Chicago/
Turabian
History, Law, Philosophy, American Studies University of Chicago Chicago Manual of Style E-book Author/Year or Footnotes
Harvard Interdisc. SOC. SC.+HEALTH+TECH, Business Harvard follows standard DS/ISO 690. DS/ISO 690:2021 (Eng. ed.)

DS/ISO 690:2013 (Dan. ed.)
ISO Standard

Log in by “Adgang via uddannelsessted”, choose SDU.
Author/Year
 IEEE TECH, engineering, computer science, math. The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers IEEE Editorial Style Manual   Website w. pdf
(IEEE Reference Guide)
 Numerical [1]
MLA HUM, Classical studies, Literature, Language. Modern Language Association MLA Handbook

MLA Style Center
Book, order via Summon

Website
Author/Year
NLM HEALTH, Medicine National Library of Medicine Citing Medicine
E-book Numerical(1)
Vancouver HEALTH, Medicine International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) Uniform Requirements
for Manuscripts


NB: refers to NLMs Citing Medicine.
Website
Numerical(1)

Last Updated 19.08.2021