EBCR Quiz 1: Plagiarism, Copyright, and AMA Citation

The Life Cycle of Scientific information

plagiarism

to steal and pass off the ideas or words of another as one's own ...without crediting the source

Why Cite?

- Gives credit to original authors

- Helps readers verify your claims from original sources

- Strengthens your arguments with credible sources

- Avoids plagiarism

Copyright

a legal tool that protects your rights to the use and distribution of things that you have created

Once you have created a work, it is _______________________________ by U.S. copyright law

automatically protected

How long does copyright protection last?

For the life of the author plus an additional 70 years

Public Domain

general facts, works no longer under copyright protection, and works created by the U.S. government

Creative Commons License

- Authors may choose to apply this to their work to facilitate the free exchange of ideas

- These works can be re-used by others without obtaining specific permission as long as they follow the guidelines established by the specific license used

Fair Use

Allows for use of excerpts of a work if the purpose is instruction, scholarship, or part of a critique, parody, or commentary

AMA Style citations

use numbered superscripts in the text, with a References list at the end in the order that the citation was used

AMA: Journal Article Citation

How many authors to list?

AMA Style: Article title

- Use sentence capitalization

- Only the first word, proper nouns, and acronyms should be capitalized.

AMA Style: Journal Title

- Capitalize and italicize all major words

- Use journal title abbreviations from the National Library of Medicine (via PubMed)

AMA Style: Date

- For published articles, use just the YEAR

- For articles online ahead of print, use: Published online [Month Date, Year]

If there is no DOI...

write Accessed + the date you viewed the article + the URL

Please the citation ________ periods and commas but ________ colons and semicolons

after; before

Place the citation number _______________ after the idea or author you are referencing

immediately