10 Sep Worksheet 1 – Instructions This worksheet is designed to help you practice finding,

Worksheet 1 – Instructions

This worksheet is designed to help you practice finding, reading, and paraphrasing peer-reviewed scientific articles. Refer to your TA’s in-class lecture and the required reading (Turbek et al., 2016) for guidance. Remember that your TA’s office hours are also a valuable resource!

You must cite peer-reviewed scientific articles (primary and secondary literature). For this assignment, you are NOT permitted to cite books. While you may use Internet search engines (Google Scholar, Web of Science) to download research articles, you may NOT cite websites.

How to Format Your Citations

Once you have explained an idea, you should finish your sentence with an in-text citation. Example: Seagrasses have been found growing at depths up to 90 meters (Duarte 1990).

If you are citing more than one reference for an idea, then include all references in chronological order in the same in-text citation but separate them with a comma.

Example: Electric communication has evolved multiple times in teleost fish species (Alves-Gomez 2001; Maynard-Smith and Harper 2003, Bernal et al. 2007).

When creating your “Literature Cited” list (i.e., “Bibliography), always list the articles in alphabetic order. Use a hanging indent (i.e., all lines after the first line should be indented.)

ARTICLE WITH ONE AUTHOR

In-Text: (Last name Year)

Example: My sentence explaining this study’s major conclusion (Alves-Gomes 2001).

Literature Cited:

Last name, Initials. Year. Title. Journal name Volume number: Start page-Last page.

Example:

Alves-Gomes, J.A. 2001. The evolution of electroreception and bioelectrogenesis in teleost fish: a phylogenetic perspective. Journal of Fish Biology 58:1489-1511.

ARTICLE WITH TWO OR MORE AUTHORS

In-text 2 authors: (Author 1 last name 1 & author 2 last name, year)

Example: My sentence explaining this study (Rypel & Layman 2008).

In-text 3 authors: (Author 1 last name et al., year)

Example: My sentence explaining this study (Archer et al., 2012).

Literature Cited: Author 1 last name, Author 1 initials, author 2 initials author 2 last name, …, final author initials final author last name. Year. Title. Journal name Volume: start page-last page.

Example – two authors:

Rypel, A.L. and C.A. Layman. 2008. Degree of aquatic ecosystem fragmentation predicts population characteristics of gray snapper (Lutjanus griseus) in Caribbean tidal creeks. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 65:335-339.

Example – three or more authors: 

Archer, S.K., S.A. Heppell, B.X. Semmens, C.V. Pattengill-Semmens, P.G. Bush, C.M. McCoy, and B.C. Johnson. 2012. Patterns of color phase indicate spawn timing at a Nassau grouper (Epinephelus striatus) spawning aggregation. Current Z