Health Data - Secondary Datasets

Referencing is important in academic work to inform others the source of your ideas and make sure you are not copying or plagiarising. When referencing other’s work (e.g.: ideas, theories, quotes, methods, data), you are required to acknowledge the original sources and cite them in your work with the recognized citation style to avoid plagiarism.

You may also use bibliographic management tools to help generate the in-text citations and reference list entries, and organise the references better in a few clicks to save your time and effort.

Please visit our Referencing & Citation page to learn more.

Data requires citations for the same reasons journal articles and other types of publications require citations: to acknowledge the original author/producer and to help other researchers find the resource. Though standards for the citation of data are not uniformly agreed upon, many data providers and distributors and some style manuals do provide guidelines.

APA Style:

O’Donohue, W. (2017). Content analysis of undergraduate psychology textbooks (ICPSR 21600; Version V1) [Data set]. ICPSR. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR36966.v1

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MLA Style:

Since MLA has not developed a specific citation style for datasets, the general rules for citing a web document may be applied. 

• Author Last Name, First Name. Title of data set. (Version). Publisher location: Publisher name, Date of publication. Medium of publication. Date accessed. doi/url of data

Chicago:

• NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (object name IRAS F00400+4059; accessed April 6, 2016), http://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/

[See Reference site]

Citation Styles

• APA Style by American Psychological Association
• MLA Style by Modern Language Association
• Chicago Style by The University of Chicago
• Research and Citation Resources by Online Writing Lab (OWL) at Purdue University

User Guides of Bibliographic Management Tools

• RefWorks User Guide 
• EndNote Training Resources
• Mendeley Help Guides
• Zotero Quick Start Guide

Self-help Materials on Referencing & Citation

• Previous Library Workshop: Managing Citations with RefWorks and More
• 1-Search Guide: Get & Export Citations

Support for Lingnan Staff

• Avoiding Plagiarism (by TLC)
• Online Tutorial on Plagiarism Awareness (by TLC)
• Moodle Training Materials for teachers (by TLC)
• Plagiarism Minimization and Detection (by TLC)
• iThenticate (by ITSC)

Support for Lingnan Students

• Avoiding Plagiarism (by TLC)
• Online Tutorial on Plagiarism Awareness (by TLC)
• Moodle Training for Students (by TLC)
• Submitting Turnitin assignments (by TLC)