Academic Resources

A critical aspect of the scientific process is the reporting of new results in scientific journals in order to disseminate that information to the larger community of scientists. Communication of your results contributes to the pool of knowledge within Asian studies and very often provides information that helps others interpret their own experimental results. Most journals accept papers for publication only after peer review by a small group of scientists who work in the same field and who recommend the paper be published.

Good references:
How to write a paper in scientific journal style and format
http://abacus.bates.edu/~ganderso/biology/resources/writing/HTWgeneral.html

Ann Blakeslee has written a very informative article: Activity, Context, Interaction, and Authority. Learning to Write Scientific Papers In Situ (Journal of Business and Technical Communication, April 1997, 11:2)
link

White, Lawrence, f. 1946-05-23
How to write a scientific paper
edition. 2006. iv, 30 pages
A brief practical guide to writing scientific papers in English, written for people who do not have English as their mother tongue with many good internet addresses
ISBN: 87-91930-00-6

Link til Asiana OPAC

Free software
Refbase a web-based, platform-independent, multi-user interface for managing scientific literature & citations.
http://refbase.sourceforge.net/

Zotero is a free, open source scholars' extension for the Firefox browser. Zotero is in part a piece of reference management software, used to manage bibliographies and references when writing essays and articles. More generally it aims to be a "next-generation research tool" for students and researchers of all genres. It enables its users to collect, manage, and cite research all types of sources without leaving their browser. On many major research websites such as digital libraries, Google Scholar, or even Amazon.com, Zotero will sense when a book, article, or other resource is being viewed and with one click it will find and automatically save the full reference information to a local reference library. If the source is an online article or web page, Zotero can optionally store a local copy of the source as well. Users can then add notes, tags, and their own metadata through the in-browser interface. Selections of the local reference library data can later be exported as formatted bibliographies for research papers or other purposes.
http://www.zotero.org/

Connotea is a free online reference management service for scientists, researchers, and clinicians, created in December 2004 by Nature Publishing Group. Unlike many of the other well-known tools, Connotea is aimed primarily at scientists, and while users may bookmark any webpage they choose, it incorporates special functionality for certain academic resources. Connotea recognises a number of scientific websites and will automatically collect metadata for the article or page being bookmarked, including author and publication names.
http://www.connotea.org/

Fee-based and licenses software:
Many universities have common licenses for one or more of the following programmes please check your institute for more information. Endnote, RefWorks, Reference Manager and ProCite.

How to create references:
Academic references
References are required in academic work in order to:

• acknowledge all the information sources you have used for your studies
• allow others to follow up your sources.

In the main body of something you may be writing you can refer to the full reference in your bibliography in a shortened form, citing just the author and date. Using this method, the book reference below would be cited in the main body as Chen (1995).

Record your bibliographic information as you go, because it is time-consuming to go through notes trying to find information on all the sources you have used.

If you are using private or confidential information e.g. company reports, correspondence allow some time to obtain any necessary permission to incorporate that information into your coursework.

Don't forget to include other people in your list of information sources. Colleagues, fellow students and tutors may all be able to offer some information to support your studies, and it is helpful to develop your list of contacts early in your searching.

References for different sources
The most important thing is to be consistent in your list of references. You might like to use the following examples as a guide to format. At any rate, choose a style and stick to it. Please note that many journals and publishers have there one rules and expect you to use them.

Books
Author's last name, initial(s) (year of publication) title (or title), edition, place of publication, publisher. Chen, M. (1995) Asian Management Systems: Chinese, Japanese and Korean Styles of Business, 2nd edn, London, Routledge.

Chapters in books
Chapter author's last name, initial(s) (year of publication) chapter title. In: author/editor, book title, place of publication, publisher, page numbers of chapter. Bantz, C.R. (1995) Social dimensions of software development. In: J.A. Anderson (ed) Annual review of software management and development, London, Sage Publications, 502-510.

Journal articles
Author's last name, initial(s) (year of publication) 'article title', title of journal (or title of journal), volume number, issue number, date, pp. xx-xx. Aaker, D. A. (1997) 'Should you take your brand to where the action is?', Harvard Business Review, vol. 75, no. 5, September-October, pp. 135-143.

Reports
Author's last name, initial(s) (year of publication) title (or title), issuing organization's location, issuing organization, report number. Clayton, J. and Gregory, W. (1997) Total Systems Intervention or Total Systems Failure: Reflections on Application of TSI in a Prison, Hull, Centre for Systems Studies, Hull University, HU-CSS-RM-15, Research memorandum no. 15.

Conference papers
Author's last name, initial(s) (year of publication) 'Title', Title of conference proceedings, date of conference, location of conference, pages on which the paper appears, publisher's location, publisher of proceedings. Biel, A. L. (1992) 'How Brand Image Drives Brand Equity', Annual Advertising and Promotion Workshop, 4th, February 1992, New York, NY, pp. 163-178, New York, Advertising Research Foundation.

Standards
The standard's number including prefix: part number if any: year: title, publisher. BS 7000: Part 2: 1997: Guide to Managing the Design of Manufactured Products, British Standards Institution.

Videos / CD-Roms/ DVDs
Title, Year. Material designation. Subsidiary originator. (Optional but director is preferred, SURNAME in capitals) Production details & place: organisation. Birds in the Garden, 1998. Video. London: Harper Videos.

Broadcasts - programmes and series
The number and title of the episode should normally be given, as well as the series title, the transmitting organisation and channel, the full date and time of transmission. Yes, Prime Minster, Episode 1, The Ministerial Broadcast, 1986. TV, BBC2. 1986 Jan 16.

Broadcasts - contributions
Individual items within a programme should be cited as contributors. Blair, Tony, 1997. Interview. In: Six O'clock News. TV, BBC1. 1997 Feb 29. 18:23 hrs.

Electronic journal articles
Author's last name, initial(s) (year of publication) 'Title of article', Title of journal [online], volume number, issue number. Available from: Name of Service, URL of website [date the site was accessed]. Bird, R. (1996) 'You need a translator or visual communication comes of age', Deliberations [online]. Available: www.lgu.ac.uk/deliberations/ [17 June 1997]. Alternatively, if you have found the article on one of the databases of electronic journals, instead of writing 'Available from' you can write: Retrieved on December 1, 2006 from ABI/INFORM Global on ProQuest Direct (UMI).

Worldwide web documents
Author's last name, initial(s) (year of publication) title of document [online], publisher. Available from: Name of service, URL of website [date the site was accessed]. Reed Personnel Services (1997) Over three-quarters of UK businesses now suffer from skills shortages [online], Reed Personnel Services. Available: www.reed.co.uk/editorial/trends29.htm [8 January 1998].

Electronic mail messages
Author's last name, initial(s) (author's e-mail address), full date of message, subject of message. E-mail to recipient's name and e-mail address. Knight, C. J. (c.j.knight@colc.ac.uk), 29 May 1997, The year 2000 problem. E-mail to j.q.parker-knoll@open.ac.uk.

OpenOffice.org Writer is an open source/free software word processor which is a component of the OpenOffice.org software package. Writer is a word processor similar to Microsoft Word, with a roughly equivalent range of features. It provides a number of features not present in Word, including being able to export to the PDF format natively.
http://www.openoffice.org/product/writer.html

Google Docs and Spreadsheets
www.google.com/accounts

ThinkFree Online also includes a presentation programme a bit like PowerPoint.
www.thinkfree.com

Zoho Office Suite is a very advanced open online-based suite which includes project organizing tools.
www.zoho.com