School of Health Information Science

Policy on: REFERENCE STYLE GUIDE FORMAT

This policy applies to School of Health Information Science class assignments, term
papers, exams, etc. for both the undergraduate and the graduate programs. The
information is not intended to be used as criteria for papers to be published.
The faculty of the School of Health Information Science will accept the following two
reference formats:
Uniform Requirements (http://www.icmje.org/)
The Uniform Requirements style guide was developed by an International Committee of
Medical J ournal Editors (ICMJ E). ICMJ E developed Uniform Requirements to help
authors and editors create and publish accurate and clear biomedical research papers.
There are two parts to Uniform Requirements. The first part of Uniform Requirements
provides ethical guidelines or principles for assessing, improving, and publishing journal
manuscripts. It also provides the underlying principles for relationships between editors,
authors, peer reviewers as well as the media. The second part of Uniform requirements
provide principles or guidelines for preparing and submitting manuscripts.
For a brief overview of Uniform Requirements see: http://www.icmje.org/#aboutur
For examples of Uniform Requirements references see:
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/uniform_requirements.html
The American Psychological Association (http://www.apa.org/)
The American Psychological Association (APA) publication manual was developed and
is distributed by the APA. The APA is the largest, scientific and professional
organization that represents psychologists in the United States, and is the largest
association of its type in the world. APA referencing style is ccommonly used in
publications in the psychological, social and health sciences literature (i.e. journals and
texts). The APA publication manual provides users with information about paper
formats, citations, endnotes/footnotes, references and manuscript writing.
For a brief overview of APA see:
http://www.apastyle.org/elecref.html

For an APA style guide see:
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/
http://www.liu.edu/cwis/CWP/library/workshop/citapa.htm
http://www.library.cornell.edu/newhelp/res_strategy/citing/apa.html
Approved: August 23, 2007