Connecting students to knowledge
and its application
Southern Utah University
Lynn White, Ph.D.
Health Behavior Intervention Project
HELP FINDING PEER REVIEWED ARTICLES
Most of the information you need to find must come from peer-reviewed articles. If you have not searched for peer reviewed articles before, watching the following videos will help.
REFERENCE YOUR SOURCES
You need to tell people where you got your information from. If everything on a given slide comes from the same article, then you can include a brief citation for the article in the corner of the slide (e.g. Smith & Jones, 2020). If the information on a slide comes from several articles, then ​

include a brief citation beside each bit of information. You should make the font size for the brief citation smaller than the main text as this should not be the focus of your presentation. The last slide of your presentation will be your APA-formatted reference list. Put the articles in alphabetical order and remove any hyperlinks. Make sure you know how to cite and create a reference list in APA format and style.
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One common error people make is with how they write DOIs. Specifically, they include the SUU library info in the DOI address. This is not correct because anyone who is outside of the SUU community will not be able to access the link. See the incorrect and correct ways to write DOIs below.
INCORRECT: https://doi-org.proxy.li.suu.edu:2443/10.1007/s00213-021-05994-6
CORRECT: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00213-021-05994-6
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Not sure how to reference?
Click on the tab "Help Referencing APA Style" - located below on this webpage. You can also use the Scribbr app. User beware! Scribbr isn't perfect. Journal article titles are not italicized, but the name of the journal is. For article titles, capitalize the first letter of the first word, personal pronouns, and places. If the title contains a colon, capitalize the first letter of the first word after the colon. For journal titles, capitalizes the first letter of all key words. Do not capitalize words like an, of, the - unless they happen to be the first word of the title (e.g. The New England Journal of Medicine).