Citing Online Drug Resources 2: Martindale: The Complete Drug Reference

Open library homepage in another browser window to work through this tutorial side by side.

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

Created 07/2014

Updated 07/2019

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Instructions:

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

AMA 10th template for Frequently Updated Online Resources

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Martindale's 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.  You will be able to access it tomorrow when you create a Zotero record for the Martindale monograph.

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

Martindale: The Complete Drug Reference

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.

screenshot of McGoogan Library homepage with arrow pointing to Drug Resources link


3. Right-click  on either the "Martindale's via LexiComp" link and select the "copy link location" option (worded slightly differently in some browsers).  The web address for the LexiDrugs and Martindale's searches are identical.

screenshot of process of copying Martindale's link


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 "Martindale's via LexiComp" link or the "LexiComp/LexiDrugs via LexiComp" link.

A screenshot showing the location of the Martindale's 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

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Find the "Martindale: The Complete Drug Reference" link.

Screenshot of the results links under the "Martindale: The Complete Drug Reference" heading. An arrow points to the monograph link.

Martindale's includes records for specific preparations as well as monographs.  A Martindale's monograph title will not include any preparation words (i.e. The monograph title will not include words like "granules", "tablets", "syrup", "USP", or "for injection"). 

After you eliminate the links that include  preparation words, you should be left with one or more link/s to a monograph.  An "updated" date may appear next to the monograph title, but only if the update was recent.

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

Monograph Title

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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)

A screenshot of the Martindale's monograph header

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).

screenshot of the updated date

Enter the date as your response to quiz question 4. Spell out the month -- as months must be spelled out in AMA bibliography entries. If the date is shown as 4/12/2018, enter--

April 12, 2018

-- instead.

Publisher

In online resources, the publisher's name typically appears in the webpage footer.

A screenshot shows the location of the publisher

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

Publisher's Location

When the publisher's location is not shown next to the publisher's name, look for a "Contact Us" link.  When this doesn't lead you to a city, state location; try a Google search for the publisher's name or resource name and the word "location."  A Google search for -- 

Wolters Kluwer location

 

-- brings up a webpage showing a location of New York, NY.  

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. 

urself.

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:

Montelukast sodium. In: Martindale: The Complete Drug Reference. 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 June 28, 2019. Accessed July 17, 2019.

Next Assignment

During the next assignment, you will choose a monograph/chapter from a printed book to cite.

Since you have chosen to cite the online version of the Martindale's, you must NOT use the printed version of the Martindale's as your printed resource.

 

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