This document discusses reference management and citation styles. It begins by outlining the key reasons for adding references: to give credit, add credibility, and help readers find more information. It then discusses impact factor and h-index as measures of scholarly impact. Different citation styles like APA, MLA, and Chicago are presented. The challenges of different styles are noted. Finally, the document introduces reference management software like Mendeley, describing its key features like the web importer tool and MS Word plugin to facilitate reference management.

1. Reference Management
Prof. Kishor Patwardhan
Faculty of Ayurveda, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University

3. Why add references?
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To give credit to
the previous
workers
To add
credibility /
authenticity to
your statements
To help readers
find further
information on
the related facts

4. Uses
 Contribution of a paper (or
an author) to the science is
often assessed on the basis
of citations the paper (or the
author) has received

5. Impact
Factor
The average number of times each article
from the journal published in the past two
years is cited in the given year.
If a journal has an impact factor of 5 in
2018, then, its papers published in 2016
and 2017 must have received 5 citations
each on an average.

6. h-index
 h-index is the largest
number h such that h
publications have at
least h citations.
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7. Example: Author xyz
 5th paper has received 5
citations
 But 6th has NOT received 6
citations
 Hence h index of this author
is 5
Papers Number of
Citations
1 43
2 32
3 21
4 9
5 5
6 5
7 1
8 0
9 0

8. Different journals follow
different citation styles
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AMA STYLE (AMERICAN
MEDICAL ASSOCIATION)
APA STYLE (AMERICAN
PSYCHOLOGICAL
ASSOCIATION)
MLA STYLE (MODERN
LANGUAGE
ASSOCIATION)
CHICAGO MANUAL
STYLE
VANCOUVER STYLE

10. In-text citation: [number]

11. In-text citation: [Number]

12. In-text citation: (author, year)

13. In-text
citation:
(number)

14. Bibliography / References
Surname, Initials. Year. Title. Journal Abbreviation. Volume:
from page– to page

15. Bibliography / References
[Sl. No.] Initials. Surname. “Title”, Full Journal Name.
Vol. Issue. pp. from page– to page, year

16. Bibliography / References

17. The Problem
• Different journals use different styles
• Too many differences between different styles
• Difficult to remember
• Needs lot of typing
• Lot of mistakes
• When a journal rejects a paper, you need to
change citation style before submitting it to
another journal
 HOW TO DEAL WITH THIS?

18. When you have only a few references:
copy the relevant style and paste the references from
reliable database if they are readily available

19. Right click, copy and paste

20. You may use MS-Word features

22. Reference Management Software

23. Reference management softwares
 Tools that help scholars to create and manage their
lists of references for research projects/ theses
 Most tools are designed to organize citations into
specific formats for the preparation of manuscripts
and bibliographies.
 Many search tools provide ways to download
references into reference management tools.

24. What is Mendeley?
• Free Academic Software
• Cross-Platform (Win/Mac/Linux)
• All Major Browsers
Desktop
Web
Mobile

25. Versions
 Web-based version
 Desktop version
 Both can be set to sync

26. Two essential components
 Web importer tool
 MS-Word Plugin

27. MS Word Plugin

28. Let us now see how does it work

29. Thanks!
Lecture on using Mendeley- Part-1
Lecture on using Mendeley- Part-2