SWK 795: Capstone Seminar (Giger)

Generally, by limiting your search to Scholarly/Peer-Reviewed sources, you will be able to find what is required for your Capstone paper. However, on occasion (such as when you're searching Google Scholar), you might not be certain if the article is peer reviewed. Go to the Ulrichs database (listed below) to find out if the article is peer-reviewed.

Interlibrary Loan​

The Interlibrary Loan department is here to help UNLV students, staff, and faculty access information that is not available from the UNLV Libraries. We are able to obtain most books, articles, conference papers, government publications, and dissertations through our network of lending libraries.

In order to register for and use our ILLiad Document Delivery system, you must have an active library account with no fines on it.

Log on (or create) an ILIAD account:

(If you do not have an account, click on "First Time Users Create an Account" link)

Let's say you discover a great article through an author's bibliography. How do you find out if UNLV has access to it? Below are the steps to locate a journal article with a citation.

Citation example: 

Title: Preventing Teen Pregnancy & Academic Failure: Experimental Evaluation of a Developmentally Based Approach

Author: Joseph P. Allen, et al

Child Development Vol. 68(4) Aug. 1997 pp. 729-42

To find out if we have access to this citation, go to the A to Z list of journal titles link, then type in the name of the journal: Child Development
You will then be directed to the databases that include access to the specific journal:
 

RefWorks is a web-based bibliographic software package that enables you to:

• Organize your research
• Create a bibliography in a variety of citation styles, including APA, MLA and Chicago
• Import references from many data sources
• Create bibliographies in different document formats (Word, RTF, HTML, etc.)
• Include citations while you write your paper

What is RefWorks?
RefWorks is a web-based bibliographic software package that enables you to:

• Organize your research
• Create a bibliography in a variety of citation styles, including APA, MLA and Chicago
• Import references from many data sources
• Create bibliographies in different document formats (Word, RTF, HTML, etc.)
• Include citations while you write your paper

"New" RefWorks Instructions

• Proquest RefWorks guide
• New RefWorks tutorials (YouTube)
• New RefWorks FAQ
• RefWorks Citation Manager (For use with Office 2016)
• Write N Cite for Windows
• Using Write N Cite with Microsoft Word
• Tips for moving to RefWorks from Mendeley

• APA Overview: PPT (updated for 7th Edition), including potentially tricky examples such as book chapters and secondary citations.
• Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL) - APA Style Guide: This is a dependable site for APA questions. Look for their Sample Paper, too.

Other Resources:

• APA Style and Grammar Guidelines

  From APA: Detailed instructions and examples from the 7th edition

• Tutorial: Basics of Seventh Edition APA Style

  from APA

• Free DOI Lookup Tool

  Provides a DOI for an article citation when one is available.

• Is it Plagiarism Yet? (Purdue OWL)

  Explains when to give credit to another person for their intellectual work (and how to do it correctly). Look for the "Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Summarizing" section on the left for examples of each.