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Other Medical Library staff can answer your more general library queries.
The Inter-Library Loans (ILL) service can be used to obtain Items not held in print in the University's branch libraries or available online. There is a charge for this service, though it may be possible to obtain an Inter-library loan voucher to pay for this:
The following tutorials are provided by the Virtual Training Suite. Written by a team of UK university lecturers and librarians they will help you to use the Internet effectively:
The Medical Library contains a wealth of such material in either print or electronic format.
Consider titles starting with:
Look for others that end with the term 'reviews', for example:
Examples of other titles include:
Index veterinarius and Veterinary bulletin are the main bibliographies. The content is covered by CAB Abstracts, which can be found in the Key Veterinary Sciences databases (via MetaLib) listing.
The Medical Subject team run a programme of training in finding and using information by arrangement with your department.
It is important to reference any sources of information you use in your work in order to avoid plagiarism. The Library's Plagiarism information and advice pages give guidance on what plagiarism is, its consequences and how to avoid it.
You should cite references in a consistent style. Biomedical journals mostly use either the Harvard or Vancouver formats for citing references. The Vancouver Group - now known as the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors - first published its Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals in 1979. The current version of Uniform requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals is available online. For samples of reference citation formats, consult the National Library of Medicine. There are many guides to the Harvard style of referencing available on the web, for example at University of Sussex.
Other useful resources include:
For information on quoting specific journals, please visit the relevant publishers' websites.
Abbreviated journal titles can make finding a journal difficult. It is often necessary to know the full title in order to locate the journal or to request it on inter-library loan. To find journal title abbreviations you could use:
If you are unable to find the abbreviation you are looking for please ask a member of Library staff.
Sometimes very short unofficial abbreviations are employed in reference books or journals. Here are some example that you may encounter:
Please note: these should not be used in the references that you write, unless they are stipulated by the body or journal to which you are submitting your work.
For general information, please visit the journal abbreviations page.
EndNote is the University of Bristol's recommended bibliographical management software, which can be used to collect, store, organise and manage references, and to output them as reference lists or bibliographies. A particularly useful function is 'Cite While You Write', enabling you to format Word documents, producing bibliographies and adding references within the text.
Updated 2 September 2013 by the University Library
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