Citing Online Drug Information Resources: AHFS DI via LexiComp

by Cindy Schmidt, M.D., M.L.S

Created 07/2014

Updated 07/2018

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Instructions:

Use the Arrow icons below the instruction screen to go forwards and backwards in the tutorial.

If you want to skip between distant parts of the tutorial, you can use the "Contents" button above the instruction screen to show the tutorial's "Table of Contents" and can click on the needed section of the tutorial.

Clicking the "Single-page view" will produce a transcript of the entire tutorial.

This tutorial will help you gather the information needed to cite a monograph from the online version of AHFS DI that can be accessed through the LexiComp interface.

AMA 10th template for Frequently Updated Online Resources

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AHFS DI monographs do not have chapter/monograph authors.

In the AMA 10th style, the bibliography entry for an authorless, online monograph is formatted as shown below:

Article/chapter/monograph title. In: Resource Title. Publisher's city, Publisher's State: Publisher's name. web address. Updated _______. Accessed Month date, year.

As a student in Introduction to Drug Information (PHPR 562), you will use the bibliographic management program Zotero to help you create formatted citations and bibliography entries, but you will still have to gather the information needed for the citation and enter it in a Zotero record.

AMA 10th template for Frequently Updated Online Resources

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To keep track of the information you gather today, you will enter it in a Canvas quiz. The quiz is set to allow you to view the information you enter at any time.

Go to Canvas and open the Week 1--

"Written Monograph -- Major Online Drug Information Resource Selection"

-- quiz. Click the --

"Take the Quiz"

-- button.

Resource Title

The first quiz question asks which major online drug information resource you have chosen to use as a source for your monograph assignment.

If you are using this tutorial, you have chosen to use

AHFS DI

LexiComp web address

When you search an online resource, the web address that appears in the browser's address box is often session-specific. A session-specific web address will not be helpful to someone looking at your bibliography.

Therefore, it's fine to just provide the web address for the resource's homepage and assume that your reader will be able to search for the specific article you've cited.

To obtain the address you need:

1. Go to the Library's homepage (should be present on the right-hand side of this window).

2. Click on the "Drug Resources" button.

3. Right-click on either the "AHFS Drug Information via LexiComp" link or the "LexiComp/LexiDrugs via LexiComp" link and select the "copy link location" option (worded slightly differently in some browsers).

4. Paste the web address into the question 2 answer box.

Monograph Title

To find the monograph title, you will, of course, need to find the monograph.

Left click on on either the "AHFS Drug Information via LexiComp" link or the "LexiComp/LexiDrugs via LexiComp" link

Login with your UNMC NetID if asked to do so.

Enter the name of your monograph assignment drug in the search box and hit the search button.

The screenshots in the tutorial will show a search for Montelukast and the Montelukast monograph. Do not search for Montelukast unless it is the monograph topic you have claimed.

 

Monograph Title

1 of 2The monograph title is shown under the "AHFS DI (Adult and Pediatric)" heading.   

Enter the monograph title in the answer box for Quiz question 3.  Then click the link to go to the monograph.

Do not use the "AHFS DI Essentials" monograph.

Monograph Title

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You will see the monograph title again when you reach the monograph page.

In monographs obtained through the LexiComp interface the title of the monograph (red underline in figure) is above the "Outline" and is followed by the name of the resource in parentheses (green underline)

Updated Date

In monographs provided through the LexiComp interface, the date of the last update is shown at the bottom of the monograph.

Scroll to the bottom of monograph (The monograph is in the right-hand frame).

You will find the "Last Updated" date below the "Copyright" section of the monograph.

Enter the date as your response to quiz question 4.  

Publisher and Publisher's Location

Immediately, above the "Last Updated" date, in the "Copyright" section;  you will find the publisher's name and the city and state in which the publisher is located.

Enter the publisher's name in response to quiz question 5.

Enter the publisher's city and state (in Omaha, NE format) in response to quiz question 6.

 

Accessed Date

Finally, enter today's date in response to question 7

 

What if you were not going to use Zotero?

What if you were not going to use Zotero?

Tomorrow you will create a Zotero record using the information you have gathered. Zotero will make it easy to insert numbered in-text citations and to create a formatted bibliography.

If you were not going to use a program like Zotero, you would need to substitute the information you've gathered into the bibliography template for this type of reference. The template is as follows:

Article/chapter/monograph title. In: Resource Title. Publisher's city, Publisher's State: Publisher's name. web address. Updated _______. Accessed Month date, year.

Substituting the information from the tutorial's sample search produces the following bibliography entry (keep in mind that I updated the tutorial in July):

Montelukast sodium. In: AHFS DI. Bethesda, MD: American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, Inc. https://library1.unmc.edu/login?url=https://online.lexi.com/lco/action/home?siteid=478. Updated February 22, 2019.  Accessed July 15, 2019.

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