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Tools for Authors 

Last update: Oct 23rd, 2009 URL: http://guides.mclibrary.duke.edu/authors  Print Guide  RSS Updates

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Finding Full-Text Articles

These links provide easy ways to verfy citations or to search for the full-text of articles when you already have the citation.

To search for articles on a topic, see the Searching the Literature tab.

  • PubMed Citation Matcher  
      
    For citations in medicine, nursing, and basic sciences.
  • Finding Articles Tip Sheet  
      
    Tips on how to find articles and journals.
  • Interlibrary Loan  
      
    The Library's Interlibrary Loan service allows you to order full-text articles that are in remote storage or that are not available at Duke. Fees may apply.

Journal Information

  • Journal Citation Reports (Impact Factors)  
      
    Search this database to find out impact factors for specific titles or for all journals in a specialty. Impact factors indicate how important or popular a journal is by analyzing how many times its articles have been cited.
  • Journal Abbreviations  
      
    Search the NCBI Journals database to determine a journal abbreviation from its full title, or vice versa.
  • Top 100 Journals  
      
    A list of the most influential journals in biology and medicine, as determined by the Special Library Association (SLA).
 

Organizing Citations and Formatting Papers

  • EndNote  
      
    Citation software that can be downloaded for free by Duke students, faculty and staff.
  • RefWorks  
      
    Web-based citation management software accessible to Duke students, faculty and staff.
  • Style Manuals  
      
    List of style manuals available in the Library or online.
  • Authors' Instructions  
      
    Links to instructions for authors for thousands of journals. Maintained by Univ. of Toledo.
 
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