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Format a Citation in APA Style Using EBSCOhost

Posted on by Marta Soto in For Faculty, For Librarians, For Students

It’s Tutorial Thursday! In this series, we explore APA’s library of video tutorials available on the APA Publishing Training YouTube channel. Please feel free to link to or embed our videos in your library websites or LibGuides, course management systems, or other locations where students, faculty, and researchers will find them.

This video shows how to find APA Style citations in EBSCOhost. These steps apply to APA PsycInfo, other APA databases, and any resource available on the EBSCOhost platform.

In this tutorial, you’ll learn:

  • how to generate a citation from the search results page
  • how to cite multiple items at once
  • where to find the citation tool within an individual record.

 

Related Resource:

APA Style Homepage 

Searching with the APA Thesaurus and Subjects on EBSCOhost

Posted on by Marta Soto in For Faculty, For Individual Subscribers, For Librarians, For Students

It’s Tutorial Thursday! In this series, we explore APA’s library of video tutorials available on the APA Publishing Training YouTube channel. Please feel free to link to or embed our videos in your library websites or LibGuides, course management systems, or other locations where students, faculty, and researchers will find them.

In this video, you’ll learn how to create an effective search in APA PsycInfo using Thesaurus Terms. We’ll use the APA Thesaurus to look up “DE Subjects” and conduct a search in APA PsycInfo.

Related Resources

APA Website: Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms 

YouTube Tutorial: Building a Search with the APA Thesaurus and Index Terms 

Using APA PsycInfo Classification Codes on EBSCO

Posted on by Marta Soto in For Faculty, For Individual Subscribers, For Librarians, For Students

It’s Tutorial Thursday! In this series, we explore APA’s library of video tutorials available on the APA Publishing Training YouTube channel. Please feel free to link to or embed our videos in your library websites or LibGuides, course management systems, or other locations where students, faculty, and researchers will find them.

Classification Codes are used in APA PsycInfo and other APA Databases to broadly categorize the primary subject matter or the main focus of an article, book chapter, or dissertation.

Adding Classification Codes to your query can help limit your search to a particular content theme. They’re a great tool for quickly limiting a large list of search results to better fit your research question, or when a search term can mean different things in different contexts, or different subfields of psychology.

Related Resource

APA Website: List of Classification Codes 

APA PsycNet: How to Export Citations to Citation Management Tools

Posted on by Marta Soto in For Faculty, For Individual Subscribers, For Librarians, For Students

It’s Tutorial Thursday! In this series, we explore APA’s library of video tutorials available on the APA Publishing Training YouTube channel. Please feel free to link to or embed our videos in your library websites or LibGuides, course management systems, or other locations where students, faculty, and researchers will find them.

In this video you’ll learn How to Export Items from APA PsycNet into Citation Management Tools like RefWorks, EndNote, Mendeley, or Zotero. We’ll start by briefly mentioning the benefits of using a citation management tool. Then, we’ll demonstrate how to export results into EndNote Web and RefWorks. We’ll wrap up the video by showing you how to save results to an .RIS file that can be used with EndNote Desktop, Mendeley, Zotero, and Academic Writer.

By the end of this video you will be able to:

  • Explain the benefits of using a citation management tool
  • Export citations from APA PsycInfo into EndNote Web and RefWorks
  • Generate an .RIS file that can be downloaded and imported into tools such as EndNote Desktop, Mendeley, Zotero, and Academic Writer.

Related Resource
Learning Commons: I need help exporting references from APA PsycNet

Video demo: Academic Writer’s Reference Center

How to Find Prepub Articles in the APA PsycNet Databases

Posted on by Marta Soto in For Faculty, For Librarians, For Students

 

It’s Tutorial Thursday! In this series, we explore APA’s library of video tutorials available on the APA Publishing Training YouTube channel. Please feel free to link to or embed our videos in your library websites or LibGuides, course management systems, or other locations where students, faculty, and researchers will find them.

In this short video you’ll learn How to Find Prepub Articles in the APA PsycNet Databases. We’ll start with a brief description of prepub articles, including why they matter. Next, we’ll demonstrate how to access them and how to create alerts to stay current on upcoming prepubs in your research area.

By the end of this video you will be able to:

  • Recognize the value of prepub articles.
  • Identify several ways prepub articles are referred to by databases and publishers.
  • Access prepub articles in APA PsycNet.
  • Create an alert in APA PsycNet to access forthcoming prepub articles.

Related Resource:
APA PsycInfo Expert Tip: Online First Publications