Foundations of Science 1 Lab Seminar

Citing and Referencing Assignment

Due the evening before your next seminar (by 11:55pm)

Before you start: Save the Word document on your computer as EndNote Assignment in
your Foundations folder before you start answering the questions. Once your assignment is
complete, please upload to NYU BrightSpace

Your Name: _______________ Your NetID: ___________

Part 1:
Comparing Google to Google Scholar Search Results
The difference between a Google search and a Google Scholar search is simple: Google
searches span all resources on the internet (blogs, newspapers, etc) while Google Scholar
searches focus on scholarly literature only.

To test this theory, please search “heavy ion collisions” in both Google and Google scholar. In
two to three sentences, please compare the similarities/differences of results below:

Answer:

Citation Count in Google Scholar

A useful function of Google Scholar is its ability to count the number of times a paper has been
cited by other papers. In the science community, a citation is typically a form of validation. The
more times a paper is mentioned in other papers, the more influential it is seen to be. Therefore,
when performing a Google search, an easy way to figure out which paper is best to support your
own research is to look at a paper’s “Cited by” number.

**Please note the use of the word typically above: in some instances, research is cited for its
ineptitude or failure. Good scientists never cite without first reading the paper and then checking
to make sure it is cited for its merits and not its failures**

Please take a moment to perform a Google Scholar search of Darwin’s influential book, “The
origin of species by means of natural selection: or, the preservation of favored races in
the struggle for life” and provide the “Cited by” number below:

Answer:
Advanced Search in Google Scholar
Please watch this quick video on advanced searches in Google Scholar, and then perform an
advanced search of your own about cheating or plagiarism issues in your country of origin
between 2008 - 2018 (but see instructions noted below first) [NOTE: Instead of the drop-down,
Scholar now hides the advanced search options under the three lines on the top left of the
screen( )].

When you perform the requested search, take a screenshot of the advanced search, and paste
it below (note: if your country gets no results or just gets citations (no actual article), redo the
search using United States as the country instead).
Screenshot:

b) What did you just search for (in your own words) based on that advanced search set-up?

Answer:

c) Pick one article from your search results, and write a 100 - 150 word summary of the article
below (you don’t need to read the whole article - just the abstract, and glance at the full article if
you need more details). [The next section will teach you how to cite it properly (within this
document) using EndNote, so don’t worry about citing your source here]

Summary:

Using Google Scholar to Export References to EndNote

Next you’ll export the reference for the article you summarized above and add it to Endnote.
Please take a few minutes to watch this video on the process of exporting references to
EndNote. Note: Before beginning this section, make sure that you have already configured your
settings in Google Scholar to show the ‘Export to EndNote’ link under your search results (the
first minute of the above video).

1) Go back to Google Scholar and find the “Import into EndNote” link of the paper you just
summarized. Take a moment to export the citation into your EndNote library. (Note: check that
the citation is complete and contains at least the authors(s), year, journal, volume, and pages...
and if not, use the article link to export the full citation from the original source if possible (see
the video).
2) Next, add an in-text citation at the end of your summary (your answer to the above
‘summary’ question). If you don’t know how to add an in-text citation, please watch this video
(Note: watch the whole video, there are two different ways to add in-text citations and one may
be easier than the other depending on the situation). FYI: the full reference will appear at the
very end of this document in a Bibliography (go take a look after adding the citation). This
bibliography will grow as you complete the following questions.

Part 2:
Finding Articles in Web of Science
Web of Science is a powerful scholarly literature search engine that NYU pays hundreds of
thousands of dollars for us to use. Make sure you’re signed into your NYU account or on
campus before you access this link to Web of Science, otherwise it won’t work.

Let’s do a search on Web of Science. We want to know what the rate of consanguineous
marriage is in the UAE (don’t know what consanguineous marriage is? Do a quick basic google
search to find out) In your own words, write a sentence that gives us the rate of marriages in
the UAE that are consanguineous (note: be careful with your spelling). We will cite this in a few
minutes, so continue without citation for the moment.

Answer:

Using Web of Science to Export References to EndNote

You can directly export references into EndNote from Web of Science. Please watch this video
on the process. Please make sure you choose EndNote Desktop, not EndNote Web. Add an
in-text citation after your sentence above (previous question) that cites the article you used on
UAE consanguineous marriage.

Editing and managing your citations

1) Please go back to the Web of Science and conduct a search within your results (see ‘Refine
Results’ to the top left of the search results page) to find articles associated with congenital.
This will give you articles that have to do with congenital birth defects related to consanguineous
marriage in the UAE. Read through the titles and perhaps open a few to check the abstracts to
find some that discuss congenital issues associated with consanguineous marriage. Select AT
LEAST two relevant articles and add these to your Endnote Library.
2) Please watch this video to learn how to edit and manage the citations that you are adding to
Word as you continue your research. Next, please write a statement (similar to the example
below) that includes actual data/diseases and that has references from your research that have
citation edits similar to those highlighted (the authors name outside parentheses first section
and additional text within the parentheses in the second section - you must do this in EndNote
not by manually writing the text in Word - see 1:48 onward in the video). Use real authors based
on your research, not these fake examples.
Example: Smith (2000) estimates that approximately XXX% of marriages of UAE
nationals are consanguineous. As a result, the Emirati population has relatively high incidence
of genetically-influenced congenital diseases such as XXXXX and XXXXXX (see examples in
Burt 2013; Dore 2011 and references therein).

Your statement:

Part 3:
Changing the Reference Style (APA, PNAS, etc) in Word
In the preceding exercises you have used the same default citation style that was last used in
class, so all of your citations and bibliography have that same style. Please watch this video and
then change your citation style to Global Environ. Change for all citations/references in this
document. Please go back and look at some of your earlier citations and at the bibliography at
the end and you can see how they’re now formatted slightly differently than earlier - being able
to change the style automatically like this saves you hours of time over doing it manually.

When finished, please upload your completed document in the Assignments section of the FoS
1&2 website on BrightSpace

Bibliography (your references will automatically be added below as you complete the assignment)