NEUR 398: Senior Thesis Neuroscience (HC) Fall 2025

With citation management software you can:

• Collect citations and PDFs in one place
   
• Automatically create a list of references in the style you choose
   
• Automatically create in-text citations in the style you choose
   
• Take notes associated with a particular citation
   
• Share citations with fellow students and faculty
   
• Save yourself a significant amount of time!
   

The Libraries recommend Zotero. Here's how to use it:

Guide to Using Zotero

APA Format for In-Text Citations

Standage (2009) claims that the control of food determines how a person views his or her government.
 

There are few examples of historians who study a family before and after they immigrate to America (Anbinder, 2002).
 

"Half the expense of the diet went on grain, 35 per cent on animal products, and the rest on potatoes" (Clarkson, 2001, p. 63).
 

"There would seem therefore to be no doubt that the type of potato plant which reached Western Europe at the end of the sixteenth century must have been much like the types we now know were common in England prior to the latter half of the seventeenth century" (Salaman, 1970, p. 618-619).

References

Anbinder, T. (2002). From famine to five points: Lord Lansdowne’s Irish tenants encounter North America’s most notorious slum. The
American Historical Review, 107(2), 351–387. http://www.historycooperative.org/

Cayton, A. R. L. (2003). Insufficient woe: Sense and sensibility in writing nineteenth-century history. Reviews in American History,
31(3), 331–341. http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/reviews_in_american_history/

Clarkson, L. A. (2001). Feast and famine: food and nutrition in Ireland, 1500-1920. Oxford University Press.

Nally, D. (2008). “That coming storm”: The Irish poor law, colonial biopolitics, and the great famine. Annals of the Association of
American Geographers, 98(3), 714–741. http://www.tandfonline.com/

Reader, J. (2009). Potato: A history of the propitious esculent. Yale University Press.

Salaman, R. N. (1970). The history and social influence of the potato. Cambridge University Press.

Standage, T. (2009). An edible history of humanity (1st U.S. ed.). Walker & Co.

Plagiarism is using the work of someone else without giving that person credit.

Most plagiarism is unintentional.

Some examples:

1. Copying text word for word from a book, an article, or the Web without giving credit.
2. Paraphrasing text from a book, an article, or the Web without giving credit.
3. Using the original ideas of someone else without giving credit.

Note: You do not have to give credit for information that is common knowledge! (e.g. the boiling point of water)

How not to do it:

1. Use your own ideas as much as possible. 
2. When taking notes, write them in your own words, making sure the wording is significantly different than the original. If you must copy word for word, use quotation marks!
3. When taking notes, keep a detailed inventory of where you found each piece of information so you’ll be able to properly acknowledge it later. Best Bet: keep your notes and citations together in Zotero.