Resources for Writing Research Papers

• Research Resources
  • Books
  • Journals
  • Internet Resources
  • Guides
• Writing Resources
  • Books
  • Internet Resources
  • Citation Samples (Vancouver)
• Presentation Resources
  • Books
  • Videos

Research Resources

Books

Evaluating research articles from start to finish
Girden, Ellen R.
Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, c1996.
HSL call number: Q180.55.E9 G524e 1996

Reading and understanding research
Locke, Lawrence F.
Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, c1998.
HSL call number: Q180.A1 L63 1998

Synthesizing research : a guide for literature reviews, 3rd ed.
Cooper, Harris M.
Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, c1998.
HSL call number: H62 .C5859 1998

Journals

For a listing of reserach and evidence-based medicine journal resources, please see the Evidence-Based Medicine journal resources.

Internet Resources

• Clinicial Sites
  • Center for Disease Control (www.cdc.gov/)
  • National Clinical Guideline Clearing House (www.guideline.gov/)
  • National Institute of Health (www.nih.gov)
• General Search Engines:
  • Altavista (www.altavista.com)
  • Google (www.google.com)
• Medicine-Specific Search Engines:
  • Achoo (http://achoo.8media.org/)
  • Medical Matrix (www.medmatrix.org)

Guides

• Finding medical articles: step-by-step
• What is Medline & how do I use it?
• Improving your Ovid MEDLINE search
• MERLIN Catalog: the University of Missouri system on-line catalog
• Accessing Databases Off-Campus
• Frequently Asked Questions about Interlibrary Loan
• Loansome Doc: using electronic interlibrary loan with PubMed
• Patron Initiated Borrowing (Electronic Interlibrary Loans for books)

Writing Resources

Books

Essentials of writing biomedical research papers, 2nd ed.
Zeiger, Mimi
New York : McGraw-Hill, Health Professions Division, c2000
HSL call number: WZ345 .Z46e 2000

How to write and publish papers in the medical sciences, 2nd ed.
Huth, Edward J.
Baltimore : Williams & Wilkins, c1990
HSL call number: WZ345 .H979h 1990

Medical English usage and abusage
Schwager, Edith
Phoenix, Ariz. : Oryx Press, 1991
HSL call number: WZ345 .S398m 1991

Why not say it clearly: a guide to expository writing, 2nd ed.
King, Lester S.
Boston : Little, Brown, c1991
HSL call number: WZ345 .K53w 1991

Internet Resources

"Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals."(www.acponline.org/journals/resource/unifreqr.htm)(Uniform Requirement/Vancouver guidelines)
Updated May 2000

Citation Samples (www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/uniform_requirements.html)(Uniform Requirements/Vancouver)

PubMed Journal Database Manager
(http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=journals)
If you need to determine a MEDLINE abbreviation for a journal, use this site.

Instructions to Authors in the Health Sciences
Raymon H. Mulford Library Medical College of Ohio
(www.mco.edu/lib/instr/libinsta.html)
Site last updated: November 12, 1999

Copyright and Fair Use Stanford University Libraries
(fairuse.stanford.edu/)

Presentation Resources

Books

Envisioning information
Tufte, Edward R.
Cheshire, Conn. (P.O. Box 430, Cheshire 06410) : Graphics Press, c1990.
HSL call number: QA90 .T914e 1990

Presentation of data in science :
publications, slides, posters, overhead projections, tape slides, television : principles and practices for authors and teachers
Reynolds, Linda and Doig Simmonds, Doig Simmonds
HSL call number: WZ348 .R463p 1981

Visual explanations : images and quantities, evidence and narrative
Tufte, Edward R.
Cheshire, Conn. : Graphics Press, c1997.
MNL call number: BF241 .T83 1997

The visual display of quantitative information
Tufte, Edward R.
Cheshire, Conn. : Graphics Press, c1983.
MNL call number: QA276.3 .T83 1983

Videos

The Audio/Visual Library has two videos (level 1 and level 2) on Powerpoint.