vanklik Posted December 24, 2009 Share Posted December 24, 2009 I'm writing a practical report about size exclusion chromatography and I've been told to give a standard analytical techniques reference in a "materials and methods" part of my report. Could anyone explain me please, how to reference such things and can I use an internet article for that? It's my first science report and I have no idea what I am doing. Thank you for your help! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iNow Posted December 24, 2009 Share Posted December 24, 2009 Hi vanklik, I have not personally done any work in that particular field, but when I was writing papers for my own degree, I would sometimes have to add references for standard practices to my methods section. What I did was to find a peer-reviewed article or two which discussed (usually in depth) how the technique itself had been shown to be effective, then reference that. I would usually write something like this in my Methods section: "As shown by Smith and Hankel (2007), and supported by Matsukoku et. al (2008), size exclusion chromatography was accurate within an error of plus or minus 0.45 in 97% of all test cases. This success is two times higher than other techniques studied (Miller 2007)." (note: this is completely made up, and I'm just using it to convey the concept... don't use these numbers or names ) Then, in the references section of your paper, you give the full citation to that article... something like this: Smith, J., Hankel, T. 2007. Comparative accuracy of size exclusion approaches. J Physiol 62(6):1130-1142. Matsukoku, F., Nanduc, B., Korrina, R, and T. Timm. 2008. Size exclusion chromatography as a effective measure of analysis: Confirmation and statistics. Nature Biology 33(6):113 -114. Miller, S. 2007. Size exclusion in the lab. Applied Chemistry Journal 31(1):24-29. Here's a helpful link for learning how to cite: http://cbe.wisc.edu/assets/docs/pdf/biolearn/TeachingTools/Radish/citing_literature.pdf You can also search something like Google Scholar to find papers. http://scholar.google.com/ Just use your key terms... like "size exclusion chromatography" to find a paper or two which meet your needs. Like this: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?as_q=size+exclusion+chromatography&num=10&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_occt=any&as_sauthors=&as_publication=&as_ylo=&as_yhi=&as_sdt=1&as_subj=bio&as_subj=med&as_subj=chm&as_sdts=5&btnG=Search+Scholar&hl=en I think you can do the rest. Good luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vanklik Posted December 24, 2009 Author Share Posted December 24, 2009 Thank you so much for your help. I think I will be able to manage now. Have a happy Christmas day tomorrow! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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