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Interlibrary loan (ILL) books typically must be returned to a lending library within two to three weeks. Your own handwriting may not provide an accurate record of material in these books. Instead, if you are using quotations from books, photocopy the pages from which you are quoting; having these pages will enable you to check the accuracy of the quotations you use.

Mendeley and RefWorks may be useful to the researcher but for different reasons. Mendeley is a free reference manager, and you can easily download and install it on your computer. Returning to our theme of tradition and innovation, Mendeley involves working on “tradition.” It is easy to be overwhelmed with articles you have accessed, and unless you print out the articles (which would be expensive), you need a way to retrieve these articles without redoing your database searches. Once you have downloaded a full text article to your desktop, you can add it to your Mendeley library, which you can organize by topic headings. You can then retrieve your articles from your Mendeley reference manager by author name, author keywords, publication, or your own tags. Within Mendeley you can create folders for specific topics, which is especially helpful if you are writing something that covers a range of topics or working on more than one project. If you use quotations in your writing, it is wise to recheck those quotations before submitting a manuscript. Using Mendeley, you can easily access the full text paper against which to check the quotation.

Mendeley: Free reference manager for organizing and subsequently accessing downloaded articles.

RefWorks is primarily used by students as a bibliographic management tool. Most students in the social and behavioral sciences will be asked to learn APA style (2020) for providing citations and references. APA style is challenging to learn because there are many rules that deal with such issues as the use of ampersands, commas, italics, volume and issue numbers, and digital object identifiers. To make it more challenging, in APA style, the format of citations in the text is different from the bibliographic form in the References section. Unlike Mendeley, there is a cost to RefWorks, but institutions typically have purchased a license to the software, and users logged on to the institutional system can use RefWorks free of charge. In theory, using RefWorks should create error-free bibliographic citations and references. Trying this on the Andrade and Devlin (2015) article, the citation was close but not error-free.