Assignment Titles: 1 of 3: Citation Managers Pre-Reflection Discussion Post 2 of 3: Try Out a Citation Manager 3 of 3: Citation Managers Post-Reflection Discussion Post Course: GRAD 5124 - Research Skills for Graduate Students Target Audience: Graduate students at a college or research university Last Updated: 2018 License for Reuse: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Suggested Attribution Statement: “Citation Managers: Pre Reflection, Try Out a Citation Manager, Post Reflection.” 2018. Course Assignment. Reused / adapted from an openly licensed (Attribution 4.0 International, CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) document created for the GRAD 5124 - Library Research Skills course, University Libraries, Virginia Tech. In Supplementary Materials for "Sustaining Graduate Information Literacy Instruction: A Case Study of Best Practices" Book Chapter. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/89332 Assignment Description and Implementation Notes: This set of assignments is part of the Grad 5124 course shell. These are the three assignments for the Citation Manager week where students are engaged in considering the benefits and challenges of different citation managers, trying out one or more citation manager tool, and sharing their assessment of these tools. These are implemented as ‘Discussion Posts’ (Parts 1 and 3 of 3) and as an ‘Assignment’ (Part 2 of 3) (in the Canvas learning management system). The instructor also provides the grade and additional feedback. This assignment asks students to apply what they’ve learned in the module to create a sample professional profile. [See assignment text on the following pages.] Assignment Title: 1 of 3: Citation Managers Pre-Reflection Discussion Post Assignment Text: Now that you've read the Week’s Overview of Citation Managers and reviewed the citation manager comparison chart linked in that week: Please post a response (about 50 words) about one or more of the following: 1) Which of the features compared in the citation managers chart are most important to you, and why? 2) Which citation manager looks like it has the best combination of features overall to support your research practices and goals? 3) Do you already use a citation manager? Which do you use, and what do you like, or not like about it? [See Assignment # 2 of 3 on the following page] Assignment Title: 2 of 3: Try Out a Citation Manager Assignment Text: Follow the instructions below to try out setting up one citation manager, adding a source reference to your library, and creating a document with an in-text citation to that source and a bibliography listing that source. ***Experienced User option -- If you are already comfortable using a citation manager to accomplish the steps below, see the note at the end, after Steps 1-5 for 2 alternate assignment options for you to choose from instead. Finish and submit this assignment by uploading 2 files: 1) A screenshot of your library with one or more references, and 2) a word or PDF document showing: one sentence with an in-text citation to the source you added to your library, and a bibliography listing the same source. 1. Set up an online account and/or desktop application for one citation manager that you'd like to try. 2. Import / Add a Reference - Use the Library Discovery search from the VT Library home page to locate a source you might use for a research project, such as a scholarly journal article, a book, or a book chapter. * If using Mendeley or Zotero, try out the browser plug-in that works with the one you chose to add one or more items to your library. * If using EndNote, select the item/s you found by clicking on the folder icon next to each * Go to your folder, click on 'Export as' and select 'EndNote or RIS.' This will download a citation file, likely an .ris format file or an Endnote-specific file-type, to your desktop. Open the file and EndNote desktop should automatically open and import it. Or, you can open EndNote and under File, click on Import. Make sure the 'Import Options' is set to 'Reference Manager / RIS,' then click on 'Import.' 3. In-Text citation - Using Microsoft Word, open a new document. Type one sentence about the source you added to your library and use the in-text citation option for your citation manager to add an in-text citation in APA style (or another style of your choice) for that source. 4. Bibliography - Step 3 should also automatically add a Bibliography (or Reference List, etc.) to your document in the same style as your in-text citation. If not, create a bibliography in APA (or another style of your choice - same style as the in-text citation) with your source using the option to create a bibliography in your citation manager. 5. Finish this assignment by uploading 2 files to this assignment: 1. Uploading a screenshot of your citation manager library showing the reference for the source you imported or added, and 2. Uploading the word document (or a downloaded PDF or word document version of the Google doc) ***Experienced User option: If you are already comfortable using a citation manager to accomplish the steps above, here are 2 options for you to choose from instead: 1) Still complete the steps above, but use a citation manager tool that you haven't tried before, or 2) Complete the steps above, but: a. for step #2, instead of importing a reference from the Library Discovery Search, learn how to import a reference from a different library database, and b. for steps #3-4 instead of using APA citation style (or another common citation style) identify a journal in your field, look at their citation style or 'references' style requirements and figure out how to use this style in your citation manager -- if you'd like to try this and have questions about getting started, let me know. [See Assignment # 3 of 3 on the following page] Assignment Title: 3 of 3: Citation Managers Post-Reflection Discussion Post Assignment Text: Write a post (about 50 words) addressing one or more of the following: Which citation manager did you use to complete the assignment to add a reference and create a document with an in-text citation and bibliography? How did you like using this citation manager? Do you think you'll continue to use it, use another, or use multiple citation managers during your graduate studies and the future? *Experienced user option: Did you choose one of the 'experienced user' options for the exercise to use a citation manager? If so, which option did you choose, and how did it go? What did you learn that was new to you?