Article 1- Myoepithelial molecular markers in human breast carcinoma pmc42-la cells are induced by extracellular matrix and stromal cells by Lebret SC, Newgreen DF, Waltham MC, Price JT, Thompson EW, Ackland ML.
Article 2
Epidermal growth factor-induced epithelio-mesenchymal transition in human breast carcinoma cells by Ackland ML, Newgreen DF, Fridman M, Waltham MC, Arvanitis A, Minichiello J, Price JT, Thompson EW.
Article 3
Induction of epithelial to Mesenchymal transition in pmc42-la human breast carcinoma cells by carcinoma- associated fibroblast secreted factors by Lebret SC, Newgreen DF, Thompson EW, Ackland ML.
Background
During your undergraduate course, you have probably used books as a source of scientific information. The scientific material presented in books is usually secondary, as the information is obtained from short articles that describe the original scientific work.
Original scientific work is generally published in scientific journals, which are known as the primary source. The articles published in scientific journals describe the experiments in great detail, such that it must be possible for any experimenter to reproduce the results, given the required materials and equipment. Because original articles contain much detail, they are often more difficult to understand.
The ability to understand and write a scientific article is essential for any practising scientist. This is because new techniques, ideas and information are contained in such articles. The journal article is the most widely used medium for scientific communication.
When undertaking scientific writing, appropriate referencing must be performed to cite the source of the information being discussed. Journal articles contain a bibliography at the end of the paper where all articles referred to in the text are described in full (ie. authors, journal, title, year, volume and page numbers). In order to manage references cited in scientific writing, computer programs such as Endnote have been developed into which all the information about a journal article can be downloaded from online reference databases. This information can be inserted into the text of an article being written, and a bibliography containing all of the cited articles can be easily produced and formatted.
To facilitate your understanding of searching for journal articles of interest, and putting together a reference library in Endnote, a library information session has been organised where you will be shown how to access information in appropriate journals, download articles of interest into an Endnote database, and use Endnote to cite references in a brief article. Please see the STAR website for the time of this session.
Aims
- To become proficient at searching for articles of interest on online databases using different criteria, ie. subject, author, journal etc.
- To find a number of articles using specified criteria, and downloading them into an Endnote database.
- To produce a summary report on a chosen journal article and use in text citations correctly.
- To format your report bibliography in the style of two different journals.
Procedure
Library sessions are held in the first week of Trimester. Please sign up to one of these sessions on STAR.
The Library session will be held in the library, not in the lab. During the library information session, you will be shown by the librarian, Ellyse Mitchell how to access articles of interest from databases including Medline, PubMed and Science Direct, and how to use the reference manager program, Endnote.
Location - Room 2.51 in the Library (Building V)
Tasks
1. Using Medline, PubMed or Science Direct, find at least 10 journal articles written by a scientist(s) with the same surname as you on a subject that relates to the cell biology of disease. If there are no articles by anyone with your surname, try another surname, such as your mother's maiden name. Print out 3 pages of the results of the search (about 6 screens).
2. Of these articles, find three articles that were written by the same author concerning one particular topic. To narrow your search to one person, include the initials of the person whose articles you need. When you are selecting your articles, make sure that you select only those that have Methods sections with some laboratory work/molecular biology techniques. Please do not use articles that are about populations eg. analysing numbers of patients with a certain type of disease.
3. Obtain electronic copies of the three articles from the library and upload the articles into an Endnote library you have created for yourself.
4. Print the Abstracts (not full articles) of the three articles you chose using Medline, PubMed or Science Direct.
5. Choose one of the articles to prepare an article summary report. Prepare a two page article summary report that includes the following:
- Some Background Information about the purpose of the research
- The Aims of the research described in the article
- A summary of the Methods Used
- What Conclusions were reached
- Include references to 4-6 other articles that are relevant (as well as referencing the article you selected). These articles should be added to your Endnote library.
6. Add in-text citations (from your Endnote library) for all your references.
7. Once you have written your 2-page article summary report with the in-text citations, you should use Endnote to produce a reference list (bibliography). Firstly format the report using the style of the journal "Nature". Save the report with the bibliography in "Nature" format.
8. Next, repeat the formatting of your report using the style that the journal "Cell" uses. Again, save your report with the bibliography list.
9. Lastly, generate an image of your Endnote library using Print Screen Function.
- For PC users, use Print Screen Button.
- For Mac users, press Shift, apple 3 for a screen dump that you can open as a jpg.
Your completed prac report should include the following items joined to form a single pdf document:
- Up to 3 pages from Medline (PubMed or Science Direct) of the search for journal articles using your surname.
- Abstracts (not full article) of three articles you selected from your search (Medline, Current Contents or Science Direct) from the one author that describes some research in the cell biology of disease.
- A 2-page article summary report on one of the three articles including in-text citations that has the bibliography formatted using the "Nature" style.
- A copy of the 2-page article summary report formatted using the "Cell" style.
- A screen print of your Endnote library (you can insert this into the text of your word document).
Attachment:- Library information.rar