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Biology: Citing Guide

Popular Citation Style

Popular Citation Style

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1  APA(American Psychological Association)

APA citation style is mainly use for social science, including psychology and education. Example:

Zhang, Y. , Xiang, G. , Gu, G. , Li, R. , & Zhang, X. (2012). Nonlinear concentration-dependent electronic and optical properties of Si1–xGex alloy nanowires.The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 116(33), 17934–17938.

MLA(Moddern Language Association)

Mainly used for social science, including literature and linguistics. Example:

Guan, Wei-Jie et al. “Clinical Characteristics of Coronavirus Disease 2019 in China.” The New England journal of medicine 382.18 (2020): 1708-1720. doi:10.1056/NEJMoa2002032

3  Chicago/Turabian

Mainly used for books, magazines, newspapers of social science. Example:

Zeng, Hualing, Dai, Junfeng, Yao, Wang, Xiao, Di, and Cui, Xiaodong. "Valley Polarization in MoS2 Monolayers by Optical Pumping." Nature Nanotechnology 7, no. 8 (2012): 490-93.

4  ACS(American Chemistry Society)

Mainly used for citation of chemistry. Example:

Liang, Y.;  Li, Y.;  Wang, H.; Dai, H., Strongly coupled inorganic/nanocarbon hybrid materials for advanced electrocatalysis. Journal of The American Chemical Society 2013, 135 (6), 2013-2036.

5  IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)

Mainly used for citation of engineering. Example:

F. Hu, Q. Hao, and K. Bao, "A Survey on Software-Defined Network and OpenFlow: From Concept to Implementation," IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, vol. 16, no. 4, pp. 2181-2206, 2014.

6  GB/T 7714-2015 Format Style of References

Catalog of Information and Reference of General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, Standardization Administration of China. It is used for citation style of thesis:

Djurisic A B , Chen X , Leung Y H , et al. ZnO nanostructures: growth, properties and applications [J]. Journal of Materials Chemistry, 2012, 22(14):6526-6535.

Turnitin

Turnitin

Turnitin provides a reliable plagiarism detection service that detects and compares inappropriate citations or potential plagiarism in submitted papers. Turnitin can be accessed through a password-based login.

Turnitin accounts:

1. Faculty Accounts – For faculty members who need to open a Turnitin account,please send your university email address and name to Ms. Zhang in the library (zhangyx@sustech.edu.cn). Once opened, an automatic email will be sent by Turnitin containing an activation link.

2. Student Accounts - Faculty members will create classes in Turnitin and open student accounts for their students who need to check their papers.

3. Existing Accounts - Faculty members and students who have previously opened a Turnitin account can continue to use the account. However, patrons who originally registered with a different email domain should update their email to (sustech.edu.cn) in the account settings.

Tips to use Turnitin:

1. Turnitin is mainly used to compare English articles in the repository. We do not suggest using Turnitin to detect Chinese articles.

2. When adding paper, please change the setting by submitting paper to "no repository" to avoid your paper entering the repository.

3. If your submitted article enters the repository, please select this record and click "Request permanent deletion", then contact Grace Zhang(zhangyx@sustech.edu.cn) to delete it in Turnitin, since users can not delete the record themselves.

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