Hi everyone this is Jeff from the Front Community College Library
today we're going to talk about had to take articles that you find in PubMed
and put them in APA format for your citations for your references page at the end
of your paper
unfortunately PubMed doesn't have a citation maker
like you that you would find in so many of the databases we have
PubMed, it just doesn't have that so you're gonna have to just put together the
citation on your own
but I'm gonna give you a guide here on how to do this so the first thing
I'm going to use here's here's the abstract for the article and it has all
the information in it that we're gonna need we're just gonna need to format it
so I'm I open a word document here I have a little guide here
that's gonna show us how to do this and I'm gonna take I'm gonna run the spell check
real quick to take all these spelling things off
notice everything was green weird-looking
okay so I have some little guides here for formats on how
you're going to cite an article in APA format
and I'm gonna post this online, this'll be online through the web site so you can kinda
see a guide
basically the authors are listed commas
in in APA if an author has more than one initial you wanna list both those
initials
OK and then use an ampersand before the last author
with year in parenthese a period after the final parenthese on the year
the title of the article, noticed that the article is not capitalized in APA
first letter other title's gonna be capitalized the other ones are not
okay unless there's a subtitle after the colon we would start
capitalizing again title at the periodical
this is the journal where it came from that's going to be in italics
and all the important words in the journal title will be capitalized
we do a comma this is the volume number also in italics
if there's an issue number we put that italic sometimes there isn't an issue
number
comma then we do the page numbers the full page numbers a period after the page
numbers
and then we have a d.o.i. a digital object identifier
that's the preferred way in APA to indicate that this is an online article
if you don't have that then you put retrieved from
and then the website address so there's a couple of different examples in here
this third example shows you that if you have
more then seven others what you do you put in all the authors up to the 6th
author
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6,
then you do a comma and then dot dot dot
and 3 elipse , or elipses ha ha
dot space dot space dot and then you put the last author in the list
OK the year then than the regular rules apply
I think did I add an extra space in there? Yeah too many spaces okay
so here are our little formats we're gonna be working with
I'm gonna leave these up here just as a guide and then we're gonna
base these citations off of this, I find this very useful you might also
want to copy and paste this stuff into
your paper just as a guide and then erase it at the end okay so I'm gonna go in
here to my article
first we need the authors so I'm gonna copy all these authors
right click there copy then I'm gonna paste these into Word
now it came in looking very strange so we can remove that formatting with this
little
paste options button that you may have never used before If I click on there
I'm gonna click keep text only o.k. then we have something a little more normal
so what I'm gonna have to do now is put a comma and then a period after each one of
these initials
just go down the line comma after the last name
do a period on the initials
comma
dot dot
comma period, just one initial listed there that's okay
and I'm gonna do them all and as you can probably tell you can probably see what's
coming here
there are more then 7 authors listed here which is not uncommon for
these kind of articles
so I'm gonna do this all first this is probably a little bit redundant
we don't even really need to do all this but I'm gonna erase some the authors when
I'm done
comma dot dot
and some of you are probably thinking why don't you just use easybib
.com or citation maker I found easybib
is pretty good for MLA, um easybib will not do
APA for free you have to pay to get APA citations from easybib
and citation son of citation maker I've tried to use that for APA
any it usually messes it up messes the citations up APA citations are very
complicated as you can see
a in the title only the first letters are capitalized whenever I've used son of citation
machine
for APA I end up with titles that all the words are capitalized
and there are just so many little things to get ron that I find that usually the
the general citation makers usually get APA citations wrong
okay also the author thing usually they'll put all the authors in there
they won't they don't understand that you need to
you can only have if you have more than seven you have to do it in this kinda strange
way
so we do have more than seven authors here so let's count up
the rule for this is you do the first six authors 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6,
dot dot dot then the last auther so how many authors do we have here
we have 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6,
7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, authors boy!
okay so we're gonna take the for 6. 1, 2, 3,
5, 6, O.K.?
then we're gonna do dot dot dot
and then we're going to delete all of these except the last author
no comma before that dot there we go so that's
that's how you do this so we have the authors in there now we're ready for the
year
it needs to be in parentheses as you can see there so
let's see what year this was published in 2010
let's add that, 2010
parentese, o.k.?
and we're gonna do a space did I get a space in their yep
got a space so what's the next thing now we need the the title of the article
let's go back and I can copy that from here
and it's gonna look weird when we past it in here I'm going to use a little trick again well
whoa!
some I'm gonna do this little clipboard keep text only
okay now we're back to normal let's see all of the
so you have the first letter capitalized the rest of the letters not capitalized there's
a proper word there that's capitalized
and after the colon there there does we do need to capitalize
the first letter the next area O.K.? now we may as well take care this now we
do need to have a hanging indent in here
which means the first line is over to the left and all
future lines are indented over
Let's just go ahead and take care of that right now we're gonna highlight that
that went pretty quickly we're gonna highlight this, go up to the paragraph
the little button by the paragraph and change this to a hanging indent
.5 double-spaced that's good don't space okay
so now it's going to be holding that format What do we need to put in next?
We need to put in the title of the periodical
in italics so this is an easy one we have an easy title
cancer okay let's go back here now it needs to be in italics so I'm just going got a
set that right now
Italics cancer o.k. what happens next? what happens next so we go up to my little thing
here
comma then we need the volume number and the issue if we have it
so it's in
it's in volume 116, issue 12 I could copy that right there
see if I can copy that its probably gonna give me a little bit more than I need
but we'll paste that in there keep text only
okay and it put in an Italics that's kind of nice. The phone's ringing I'm but I'm
not going to answer that
just gonna keep going here okay after that
we need to have a comma space
Then we're gonna take the italics off. O.K.? now we meed the page numbers let's go back and look at
the page numbers
there's the page numbers right there
paste those page numbers in it messed it up again but as long as we keep using
this little paste options box keeps a text only
keep it'll keep fixing it. Now let's take that italics off its looks like it put some italics
on there, let's take that off of there
Normal, okay now what do we need next
we've got the pages now if we can't find
a d.o.i., a digital object identifier, we'll do retrieved from
PubMed but I think we can find a d.o.i. a lot of these articles we can find
d.o.i.'s, let me show you how to do that so
if the full text is online you can usually find a d.o.i.
if the full text isn't online you'd have to we have to cite it to this retrieved
from
this website address but what we're gonna here I'm gonna go in
to see if I can if the full text here it'll be over here in their earlier
video on PubMed I show you how to find the full text of
these articles okay so we got it here
we need to go to the actual full text this is not the actual full text that
That person's trying to call again
boy they're really desperate I'll have to call them back in a minute but we're gonna finish
this video first
I'm gonna go into the PDF here and
I just turned down the volume of my ringer okay here we go
there's the d.o.i. right there when we got to the full text we've got a d.o.i.
So I'm gonna copy that
control C going here and we're gonna paste that in
and one last time full text keep the text only
okay so there whoo! it's kind of a lot of work isn't it? but at least you know
the correct way to do it
that is how you put together a citation
of an article that you find on PubMed I know it's a lot of work
I will post these little templates online so you can judge it off of
that
and boy good luck with this
it a little bit of work but after get you do it a few times you won't have any
problems with it
so contact me if you have
any questions on this this is Jeff in the library signing off