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COPHS Citation Guide

Full COPHS Citation Guide
Butler University's official style guide for the College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences. Many of the examples & explanations on this site come from the COPHS guide, so refer to this PDF for more information.

AMA Citation Guide

Click here to see citation rules, examples, and more from the AMA Manual of Style.

Databases for Finding Articles, Drug/Disease Information, and More

To access a full list of Pharmacy/PA/Health Sciences databases, click HERE.

To see a comprehensive A-Z list of all Butler databases, click HERE.

Databases for Background Information on Diseases and Their Treatment

5 Minute Clinical Consult
5 Minute ClinicalConsult is a fully integrated online resource to help guide primary care professionals and clinical students in daily decision support, used to obtain the most likely diagnosis, treatment, and management for thousands of diseases.
UpToDate Online
NOTE: After signing in via this link, users may create a personal login to access content anywhere, but they must re-verify the personal account every 90 days. UpToDate is a comprehensive, evidence-based clinical information on the topics of Internal Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Family Medicine, and Pediatrics.
DynaMed Plus
DynaMed Plus is a clinical reference tool created by physicians for physicians and other health care professionals for use at the point-of-care. DynaMed editors monitor the content of over 500 medical journals on a daily basis. Each article is evaluated for clinical relevance and scientific validity. The new evidence is then integrated with existing content, and overall conclusions are changed as appropriate, representing a synthesis of the best available evidence.
ClinicalKey
ClinicalKey is a database designed for medical professionals. It provides full-text articles from Elsevier’s collection, as well as access to images, videos, and books.
AccessMedicine
AccessMedicine is a resource that features medical content, plus multimedia, self-assessment, algorithms, case studies, and more.

Databases for Health Science Topics

Academic Search Complete
This large multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 4,770 journals, including full text for over 4,000 peer-reviewed titles.
Biomedical Reference Collection Basic
Designed for doctors, research scientist, students and clinical specialists, this database provides full text for over 100 journals in a variety of areas pertaining to medical study.
Health Business FullTEXT
Health Business FullTEXT provides full text coverage for nearly 130 administrative journals covering the business of health care administration.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition provides full text from almost 520 scholarly journals covering a variety of medical topics.
MEDLINE with Full Text
Full-text database providing access to top-tier biomedical and health journals.
PubMed (MEDLINE)
Article citations, often with abstracts, from more than 4,000 national and international periodicals, books and dissertations in medicine, nursing, dentistry, and related topics; online equivalent to Index Medicus.
ScienceDirect (Elsevier)
Search for peer-reviewed journals, articles, book chapters, and open access content on scientific, technical, and medical research.

ABI/INFORM Complete
This database features thousands of full-text journals, dissertations, working papers, key business and economics periodicals such as the Economist, country-and industry-focused reports, and downloadable data.
Business Source Complete
Business Source Complete is the world's definitive scholarly business database. Includes books, case studies, company profiles, economic reports, industry reports, SWOT analyses, in addition to nearly 2,000 peer-reviewed journals.
EconLit with Full Text
Produced by the American Economic Association, this is the world's foremost source of references to economic literature.
Health Business FullTEXT
Health Business FullTEXT provides full text coverage for nearly 130 administrative journals covering the business of health care administration.
Nexis Uni
Nexis Uni provides access to the full text of hundreds of major business and legal journals, magazines, and U.S. and international newspapers. Company financial, country, tax, medical, federal and state legal information, and accounting information can also be accessed.

Consumer Health Complete
A comprehensive resource for consumer-oriented health content, Consumer Health Complete is designed to support the information needs of patients and to foster an overall understanding of health-related topics. This resource provides content covering all key areas of health and wellness, from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated medicine.

MedlinePlus
The National Institutes of Health's Web site for information about diseases, conditions, and wellness issues.
Healthfinder.gov
Healthfinder.gov has resources on a wide range of health topics selected from approximately 1,400 government and non-profit organizations to bring you reliable health information.

Academic Search Complete
This large multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 4,770 journals, including full text for over 4,000 peer-reviewed titles.
Google Scholar
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations.
Readers' Guide Full Text Select
This full-text database provides searchable full text for a broad selection of the most popular periodicals.
WorldCat (FirstSearch)
WorldCat contains more than 64 million bibliographic records and 1 billion holdings contributed by more than 9,000 libraries around the world. It is the largest and most comprehensive database of its kind.

CQ Researcher
CQ Researcher includes reports that offers in-depth coverage of political and social issues, such as health, international affairs, education, the environment, technology and the U.S. economy.
Indianapolis Star/News (1991 - present)
Full text of newspaper articles indexed from the Indianapolis Star, Indianapolis News, and Sunday Star.
Newspaper Source Plus
This database provides a full-text digital collection of the world's major news content. It includes millions of articles from newspapers, newswires and news magazines. In addition, it offers television and radio news transcripts and ongoing daily updates from popular news sources.
Newswires
EBSCO's Newswires provides near real-time access to top world-wide news from Associated Press, United Press International, PR Newswire, Xinhua, CNN Wire, and Business Wire on a continuous basis.
Nexis Uni
Nexis Uni provides access to the full text of hundreds of major business and legal journals, magazines, and U.S. and international newspapers. Company financial, country, tax, medical, federal and state legal information, and accounting information can also be accessed.
Wall Street Journal
This is the Eastern edition of the Wall Street Journal, available from 1984 to the present.

Clinical Pharmacology powered by ClinicalKey
Clinical Pharmacology provides up-to-date, peer reviewed, clinically-relevant information on all U.S. drugs, as well as off-label uses and dosages, herbal supplements, nutritional and over-the-counter products, and new and investigational drugs.
Facts & Comparisons 4.0
For more than sixty years, Facts and Comparisons has been the professionals' source for drug information. Includes many standard drug information reference texts, black box warnings, medication guides, a manufacturer index, and much more.
Lexi-Comp Online
Clinical Reference Library integrates industry leading clinical databases, drug interactions, and drug images.
Micromedex Healthcare Series
Full text from the compilation of databases including Poisondex, Drugdex, Emerindex, Identidex, etc. covering drug information, drug therapy, and toxicology.

PsycINFO
PsycINFO, from the American Psychological Association (APA), contains nearly 2.3 million citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, all in psychology and related disciplines, dating as far back as the 1800s.
Social Sciences with Full Text
Covering the latest concepts, theories and methods from both applied and theoretical aspects of the social sciences, this full-text resource provides access to the most important English-language social science journals.
SocINDEX with Full Text
SocINDEX with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive and highest quality sociology research database.

SPORTDiscus with Full Text
This database is a source of literature for sports and sports medicine studies
Sports Medicine & Education Index
Sports Medicine & Education Index is a citation database comprising records from peer-reviewed and non-peer-reviewed sources that focus on exercise physiology and physical education.

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