by Cindy Schmidt, M.D., M.L.S
Created 07/2014
Updated 07/2019
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Instructions:
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LexiComp includes three sets of frequently updated, "LexiDrugs" monographs that are produced by the LexiComp publishing company.
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.
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. Consequently, you will be able to access the information tomorrow when you create a Zotero record for the LexiDrugs monograph.
Go to Canvas and open the Week 1--
"Written Monograph -- Major Online Drug Information Resource Selection"
-- quiz. Click the --
"Take the Quiz"
-- button.
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 one of the following three resources:
LexiDrugs Pediatric and Neonatal LexiDrugs Geriatric LexiDrugs
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 the link to "LexiComp/LexiDrugs via LexiComp" and select the "copy link location" option (worded slightly differently in some browsers).
4. Paste the web address into the question 2 answer box.
To find the monograph title, you will, of course, need to find the monograph.
Left click on 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.
An "Updated" date may be present, but such a date will only be present if the last update was recent.
Enter the monograph title in the answer box for Quiz question 3. Then click the link to go to the monograph.
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)
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).
Enter the date as your response to quiz question 4.
In online resources, the publisher's name typically appears in the webpage footer.
Enter the publisher's name in response to quiz question 5.
When the publisher's location is not shown next to the publisher's name, look for a "Contact Us" link. Unfortunately, that doesn't lead to a physical location.
The next thing to try is doing a Google search for either the resource or publisher's name and the word "location". A Google search for --
lexidrugs location
-- retrieves a page on referencing LexiComp resources from the publisher. This page suggests using Hudson, OH as the publisher's location.
Finally, enter today's date in response to question 7.
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:
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. In: LexiDrugs. Hudson, OH: Wolters Kluwer Clinical Drug Information, Inc. https://library1.unmc.edu/login?url=https://online.lexi.com/lco/action/home?siteid=478. Updated July 15, 2019. Accessed July 17, 2019.
During the next assignment, you will choose a monograph/chapter from a printed book to cite.
You should NOT cite the printed version of the online resource you have chosen to cite.
The Drug Information Handbook is the printed version of LexiDrugs.
The Pediatric and Neonatal Dosage Handbook is the printed version of Pediatric and Neonatal LexiDrugs.
The Geriatric Dosage Handbook is the printed version of Geriatric LexiDrugs.
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You can enter multiple email addresses separated by commas. If you are doing this for a class, you may need to enter your instructor's email address also.