Q&A: How do I cite a website for an article I wrote?

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Question: How do I cite a website in an article I wrote?

Answer:  It depends on the citation format required by the publisher or your instructor.
For something more informal (ie, a blog post, newsletter, local policy, memo), you might be able to choose the format.  Either way, check out the Library's Citing Sources LibGuide.

Search Tips: Citing Sources

Citing sources is much easier than it used to be!   This page has a number of tools to help with your question from the "Anatomy of a Citation" to links that will help with proper citation formats for APA, PubMed, AMA, and others ...

For your specific question about how to cite a website, I would recommend one of the citation generator tools that allow you to enter a url, and the tool will scrape that page for the necessary citation info, and then spit out a usable and properly formatted citation.  

Try it:

APA Citation Generator (You could pick other formats-- I tend to like AMA and APA for our health care setting.)

> This one should be all set for you to pop in a website url

EasyBib is another tool that formats citations

    > Choose "Create Citations"

    > Choose your Source: Website

    > Copy and paste the url, and follow the on-screen prompts to add any missing info.

    > Be sure to check and see what the tool created for you.  You may need to make some corrections or adjustments.  But it should do most of the work for you.  

Then you should be able to copy and paste the formatted citation into your paper or article.

Here's an APA formatted citation for the Citing Sources LibGuide noted above:

• Matucheski, M., 2020. LibGuides: Search Tips & Tutorials: Citing Sources. [online] Ascension Wisconsin Library Services.   Available at: <http://ascension-wi.libguides.com/SearchTips/CitingSources> [Accessed 20 May 2020].

Note the url and the date accessed.  These are important bits of information often left out when citing sources on the ever-changing world wide web.  If things change on this website in future, we know it was there on this date when you referenced it.  Additionally, a complete reference gives us clues to track it down in case it moves [It happens!] somewhere else on the web.  

These citation generator tools work well for single citations.  If you have a more involved list of references / citations, you may want to check out more fully-featured tools like Zotero or Mendeley.  

Questions or comments?

Contact your Ascension Wisconsin Librarians:

Michele Matucehski    and Kellee Selden

Radio Advisory: Advisory Board's New Podcast for Health Care Leaders

Radio Advisory: Listen to our new podcast for health care leaders

Join our new podcast, Radio Advisory, as host Rachel Woods and industry experts break down the most important issues for health care leaders like you in short, to-the-point episodes. Listen to our first few episodes to hear: 

• How to lead through crisis;
• How the pandemic will affect the upcoming elections;
• How to ramp up hospital capacity amid Covid-19; and
• How Covid-19 is transforming telehealth now and in the future.

Training & Tutorials for New PubMed

The NEW PubMed will become the default as of May 18, 2020.     

The National Library of Medicine has updated and created new training materials to help you learn to use the new PubMed.    Get yourself ready with the following tutorials:

• Quick Tour Videos (2 minutes each)

• PubMed: Find articles by Author
• A brief tutorial on how to find articles by an author using PubMed.

• PubMed: Find articles by Journal
• A brief tutorial on how to find articles from a journal using PubMed.

• PubMed: Find articles from a Citation
• A brief tutorial on how to find articles from citation information.

• PubMed: Find articles on a Topic 
• A brief tutorial on how to find articles on a topic using PubMed.

• PubMed: Find the latest Treatments for a Disease or Disorder
• A brief tutorial on how to find the latest treatments for a disease or disorder using PubMed.

• PubMed: Get the full text for an Article  
• A brief tutorial on how to get the full text for an article cited in PubMed.

• PubMed: Save Searches and Set e-mail Alerts   
• A brief tutorial on how to get alerts for articles on a topic.

• PubMed Subject Search: How it Works   
• A brief tutorial on how automatic term mapping and explosion enhance your PubMed search.

NEW PubMed FAQs & User Guide (linked on bottom of new PubMed home page)

Tips for Using PubMed (2-Page PDF Fact sheet)

NEW PubMed Transition FAQs - Answers general and common questions.

The New PubMed: Trainer's Toolkit

If you have questions about how to do something in the new PubMed, please use the streamlined, green feedback button on the bottom-right side of each page in the new PubMed.

Don't forget these local tips for Ascension Wisconsin users:

1. If you use the PubMed links on the Ascension Wisconsin Library pages, you'll tap into our full-text offerings.
2. If we don't have it, you'll be able to easily order the article through Ascension Wisconsin Library Services
3. We have a New PubMed Search Tips page with all of these helpful tips and tutorials.  

Questions or comments, contact Your Ascension Wisconsin Librarians: 

 Michele Matucheski        Kellee Selden

April-May Summary of Blog Posts: How to Nasopharyngeal Swab Specimen - Clinical Calculators in CK - Contact Tracing - Approved List of Abbreviations - Nurses Choice May

Your Ascension Wisconsin Librarians are safe-at-home, supporting our Health Care Heroes.    

Contact us for research, articles, or online access.   Read more ...  

Catch up on the latest news from Ascension Wisconsin Library Services:

• Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCov) Library Resources & Research [Updated daily!]
• Training & Tutorials for New PubMed  - New PubMed becomes the default on May 18. Get ready with these quick tutorials.
• Nurses Choice Recommended Reading - May 2020

• Q&A: Is there an approved list of medical abbreviations for Ascension Wisconsin?
• Contact Tracing: What is it?
• How to Partner with a Clinical/Medical Librarian
• 4 New Nursing eBooks on R2: AORN Guidelines, Lippincott, AWHONN, Merenstein
• How to Obtain a Nasopharyngeal Swab Specimen: NEJM's Videos in Clinical Medicine
• Clinical Calculators in in Clinical Key
• ANA's Covid-19 Webinar Series: FREE and On-Demand

Questions or comments, contact Your Ascension Wisconsin Librarians: 

 Michele Matucheski        Kellee Selden

Nurses Choice Recommended Reading - May 2020

May 2020 See what your fellow nurses are reading! Browse this month's round-up of the top 10 most read articles from Lippincott's prestigious list of nursing journals. Check out the link below "Interventions for COVID-19 ARDS".

Reflections on Nursing Ingenuity During the COVID-19 Pandemic Journal of Neuroscience Nursing, Publish ahead of print Managing Pain in Critically Ill Adults: A Holistic Approach AJN, American Journal of Nursing, May 2020 Acute kidney injury: Challenges and opportunities The Nurse Practitioner, April 2020 A quick guide to the Clinical Opiate Withdrawal Scale Nursing Made Incredibly Easy!, May/June 2020 Exercise Interventions in Cardio-oncology Populations: A Scoping Review of the Literature Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, Publish ahead of print Navigating the peaks to Pathway success Nursing Management, May 2020 Nurse Continuity at Discharge and Return to Hospital Nursing Research, May/June 2020 Navigating a Minefield: Meta-Synthesis of Teen Mothers' Breastfeeding Experience MCN, American Journal of Maternal Child Nursing, May/June 2020 Confronting compassion fatigue in oncology nurses Nursing, May 2020 Hospital-Acquired Conditions Reduction Program, Patient Safety, and Magnet Designation in the United States Journal of Patient Safety, Publish ahead of print

Interventions for COVID-19 ARDS

* List and links courtesy of Anne Chaney at Wolters-Kluwer/Ovid.

* Questions about access, contact Your Ascension Wisconsin Librarians: 

 Michele Matucheski        Kellee Selden

Q&A: Is there an approved list of abbreviations for Ascension Wisconsin?

Question: Is there an approved list of abbreviations for charting at Ascension Wisconsin?

Answer: After checking with Informatics, clinical educators and others in-the-know, we determined that there is currently NO official list of approved abbreviations for Ascension Wisconsin for documenting care in the EHRs.   Some sites may have their own approved abbeviations lists, but there is nothing standardized statewide.   

For reference and patient safety, there are several DO NOT USE abbreviation lists:

• The Joint Commission's Official "DO NOT USE" List.
• Facts about the Official "Do Not Use" List.

• The Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) also keeps a list of error-prone abbreviations, symbols, and dose designations.

For a complete listing of what's possible, see
Dorland's Dictionary of Medical Acronymns (c2016) via Clinical Key.

Contact Tracing is the Key to Reopening America - But how does it actually work?

Contact tracing is key to reopening America. But how does it actually work? 

(Wednesday, April 29)
States across the country are laying the groundwork to launch massive contact tracing efforts 

to identify people who may have contracted the new coronavirus. Some public health experts 

say the efforts are crucial to relaxing social distancing measures intended to curb America's 

Covid-19 epidemic. But how does it work?  Read on ...

How to Partner with a Clinical / Medical Librarian

Partnering With Librarians RDownload PDF

• Janene Batten MLS

Journal of Pediatric Health Care, 2020-01-01, Volume 34, Issue 1, Pages 1-1.

Copyright © 2019 National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners

The role of the librarian is to locate, organize, make available, and often disseminate information. Librarians in the 21st century primarily work with digital resources to ensure that clinicians have easy access to the information needed to practice, research, and teach, and for lifelong learning. The focus of this editorial is to highlight the value the librarian brings to writing and publishing. Moreover, as you work in other settings, be sure to think about collaborating with a librarian to raise the level of productivity in the areas of teaching and clinical practice.   

How can the librarian be a partner?   Read more ...

Link to PDF    (via Clinical Key)

Your Ascension Wisconsin Librarians are here to support you and the work you do in our ultimate goal of excellent patient care.   Contact us for more info ...

Michele Matucheski      and    Kellee Selden

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