Citation style guides
Cite as you write

EndNote is bibliographic management software that allows you to organise your references and build bibliographies.
Click here for a short movie on why EndNote is useful when writing assignments, dissertation, or research articles.
For more detailed information and instructions on how to download the software please click here!
Journal title abbreviations
Find out @ PubMed Journals what journal title abbreviations stand for or how to abbreviate journal titles
Measuring research output
- Eigenfactor.org Ranking & mapping scientific knowledge
- Journal Citation Reports (JCR) Impact factors of your favorite journals.
- SCImago Journals & country scientific indicators developed from the information contained in the Scopus database.
- Scopus : Analyzing Journals Quick, easy and transparent view of journal performance.
- Web of Science Find out who is citing you and work out your H index
Learn how to measure your research output
- Finding journal impact factors using Journal Citation Reports (JCR) Cushing/Whitney Medical Library, Yale University
- How to analyze the content and performance of specific journals with Scopus? Interactive tutorial by Scopus (Elsevier)
- Learn citation analysis with Web of Science Cushing/Whitney Medical Library, Yale University
- Rank and map scientific knowledge with Eigenfactor Detailed instructions from Eigenfactor.org
- SCImago help pages By the SCImago Research Group
Research output session handout
Which journal should you submit your article to?

Have you recently written a paper, but you're not sure to which journal you should submit it? Or maybe you want to find relevant articles to cite in your paper? Or are you an editor, and do you need to find reviewers for a particular paper? Jane can help!
Writing literature reviews
Health sciences literature review made easy: the matrix method - Judith Garrard
ISBN/ISSN: 0763740047
The literature review: a step-by-step guide for students - Diana Ridley
ISBN/ISSN: 1412934265
The literature review: six steps to success - Lawrence A. Machi
ISBN/ISSN: 1412961351
e-books on scientific writing
The clinician's guide to medical writing - Robert B. Taylor
ISBN/ISSN: 0387222499
Writing skills in practice: a practical guide for health professionals - Diana Williams
ISBN/ISSN: 1853026492
Plagiarism and copyright
- All your own work A University of Sydney guide to avoiding plagiarism, cheating and copying so that your work is all your own.
- Avoiding Plagiarism Academic Skills Resources, The Learning Centre UNSW
- Plagiarism and Academic Honesty A short online learning tool from the University of Sydney Library's iResearch series
- The University of Sydney Guide to Copyright Copyright guide for staff and students
Publish in open access dentistry journals
On open access publishing
Here are some websites that may support you with retaining some rights in your intellectual output instead of handing them all over to the publishers:
Sherpa Romeo Here you can do a search by journal title to find out if the journal is published by a green, blue, yellow or white publisher: Green publishers - allowing archiving of both pre-prints and post-prints Blue publishers - allowing archiving of post-prints but not pre-prints Yellow publishers - allowing archiving of pre-prints but not post-prints White publishers - no archiving allowed
SPARC Practical guidance when submitting journal articles. Here you will also find a SPARC sample addendum. SPARC, the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition is an international alliance of academic and research libraries working to correct imbalances in the scholarly publishing system.
Six things a researcher needs to know about OA in SPARC Open Access Newsletter, issue #94, February 2, 2006.






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