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Answering Background Questions

How Do I Cite...?

Citing information found in an ebook database like ClinicalKey or AccessMedicine.

In Vancouver Style:

If citing a portion of an edited book that was written by a CONTRIBUTING AUTHOR:

Author(s) of the contribution. Title of the contribution. In: Author(s)/Editors(s) of the book. Title of the book [Internet]. Edition. Place of Publication: Publisher; Year of Publication [Date of Update/Revision; Date of Citation]; inclusive pagination (or the extent, such as XX number of screens). Available from:URL or Database Name.

Example:

de Cabo R, Le Couteur DG. Chapter 94e: The biology of aging. In: Kasper D, Fauci A, Hauser S, Longo D, Jameson J, Loscalzo J., editors. Harrison's principles of internal medicine [Internet]. 19th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill; 2015 [cited 2016 July 20]. Available from AccessMedicine.

If citing a portion of a book that was written by the e-book author:

Author(s) of book.  Title of book. [Internet]. Edition. Place of publication:  Publisher; Year of publication.  Number of chapter: Title of chapter [Date of Update/Revision; Date of Citation]; inclusive pagination (or the extent, such as XX number of screens).  Available from:URL or Database name.

Example:

Bertorini TE. Neuromuscular case studies. [Internet]. Philadelphia: Butterworth-Heinemann Elsevier; 2008. Chapter 3: Therapy in neuromuscular diseases [cited 2016 July 20]; 77-92. Available from ClinicalKey.

Kasper DL, Fauci AS, Hauser SL, Longo DL, Jameson JL, Loscalzo J. Harrison's principles of internal medicine. [Internet]. 19th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill; 2015. Figure 94E-1, The rates of death in the United States (2010); [cited 2016 July 20]; [about 1 screen]. Available from AccessMedicine.

Citing information from a journal article found in an full-text database like PsychiatryOnline or CINAHL.

In Vancouver Style:

DOI available:

#. Author A, Author B. Title of article. Abbreviated Title of Journal. year;vol(no):page numbers. doi:10.XXX/XXXXX.XX.

No DOI available:

#. Author A, Author B. Title of article. Abbreviated Title of Journal [format]. year [cited year abbreviated month day];vol(no):page numbers. Available from: Database Name. Internet address.

Example:

Smith K, Smith P, Cercone S, McKee S, Homish G. Past year non-medical opioid use and abuse and PTSD diagnosis: interactions with sex and associations with symptom clusters. Addictive Behaviors [serial on the Internet]. (2016, July), [cited August 1, 2016]; 58167-174. Available from: CINAHL with Full Text.

 

Citing information from a journal article found on a website.

DOI available:

#. Author A, Author B. Title of article. Abbreviated Title of Journal. year;vol(no):page numbers. doi:10.XXX/XXXXX.XX.

No DOI available

#. Author A, Author B. Title of article. Abbreviated Title of Journal [format]. year [cited year abbreviated month day];vol(no):page numbers. Available from: Internet address.

Example:

​Rousseau C, Jean S, Gamache P, Lebel S, Mac-Way F, Biertho L, et al. Change in fracture risk and fracture pattern after bariatric surgery: nested case-control study. BMJ [Internet]. 2016 [cited 2016 Aug 1]; 354: [about 12 pages]. doi: 10.1136/bmj.i3794.

Citing an image found in an ebook.

In Vancouver Style:

Example:

The Urbana atlas of pathology [Internet]. Urbana (IL): University of Illinois College of Medicine at Urbana-Champaign; c1994-1997. Image No. 034, Left ventricular hypertrophy, heart; [cited 2006 Nov 15]; [about 1 screen]. Available from: http://www.med.uiuc.edu/PathAtlasf/CVAtlas034.html

Citing an image found in an image database like VisualDX or AnatomyTV.

Caption below image: "Image source: VisualDX"

Citation at end of presentation/paper:

AnatomyTV [Internet]. LondonInforma PLC, Primal Pictures. Copyright 2016 - . [Image], Neurovasculature of the spinal cord: anterior aspect; [cited 20 July 2016]; [about 1 screen]. Available from: http://anatomy.tv/GotoView.aspx?productname=interactivespine2014&modelID=-1&mediaID=9518282&structureID=-1&mediaTypeID=4&productID=452.

Medpix [Internet]. Bethesda (MD): National Library of Medicine (US). [date unknown] - . [Image], Acute ischemic stroke: Hyperacture stroke, left-sided paresis and hemineglect; [cited 20 July 2016]; [about 1 screen]. Available from https://medpix.nlm.nih.gov/case?id=88854bc4-688b-4f39-acdf-4b534bdb2596.