2020-2021 / VDOC0072-1

Creation, completion and managing a personal bibliography base and generating a bibliography in a given editorial style

Duration

5h Th

Number of credits

 Doctoral training in veterinary sciences3 crédits 

Lecturer

Sandrina Vandenput

Language(s) of instruction

French language

Organisation and examination

All year long, with partial in January

Schedule

Schedule online

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Learning unit contents

The management of bibliographic references is a time consuming step in a scientific research and writing process.
This course aims to show how to use the Mendeley or Zotero bibliographic reference management software to retrieve and store references, manage them, share them and produce bibliography, respecting editing styles.

Learning outcomes of the learning unit

At the end of the training, researcher will be able to:

  • retrieve and insert, into Mendeley or Zotero, bibliographic references from database searches... ;
  • organize and manage these references ;
  • cite in-text citations and automatically edit the bibliography at the end of the text, in a correct format (publishing style of scientific journals) ;
  • share references and documents with other Mendeley or Zotero users.

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

In-class course (duration : maximum 2 hours).  Inscription needed : https://lib.uliege.be/fr/formations/formations-sur-place.
Opportunity to follow the course in English : see on the web page.

Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)

in-person classes (depending on the evolution of the COVID-19 sanitary situation)

Organisational adjustments related to the current health context

Recommended or required readings

Assessment methods and criteria

Below you will find information on the evaluation methods planned for in-person and remote exams as well as those planned for hybrid sessions. Depending on how the health crisis evolves, the chosen method will be communicated to you no later than one month before the start of the exam session.

The evaluation will take place on your personal computer (with some possible exceptions).
The objective of the evaluation is to check your ability to import references from databases useful for your cursus or from ULiège catalog, to show your ability to attach a pdf to a reference, to manually import a reference, to insert references in a text, to create a bibliography at the end of the text according to a specific editorial style.

Work placement(s)

Organizational remarks

Contacts

Sandrine Vandenput, DVM, PhD
ULiège Library | Health Sciences Email : S.Vandenput@uliege.be
Please always use your ULiège email address when sending emails and mention the course code (VDOC0072) in the email object field.