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MB 385: Emerging Infectious Diseases and Epidemics

This is a course page designed to help OSU students in the MB 385 Emerging & Infectious Diseases class.

MB 385 Library Assignment

Due - Feb. 1 at 12:00 p.m. Your library assignment is worth 3 points and consists of the following deliverable, described in more detail below:

  • A document with 6 references (hopefully relevant to your chosen disease) formatted in the Emerging Infectious Diseases or the Nature journal citation style, and annotated with the information specified below.

1.  Create a Zotero collection on your topic. (See these Zotero instructions for more help.)

2.  Use at least 2 databases (covered in the library session) to search for articles or other resources that are relevant to your disease topic. Add a total of at least 6 references from these databases (feel free to add more if you find more articles/resources that are interesting or relevant to you) to your Zotero collection.

3.  Use Zotero to create a bibliography in Word (see these directions on how to create a bibliography without adding in-text citations).  Use the Emerging Infectious Diseases or Nature journal citation style to format the references.  (See these directions for how to add a citation style to the basic list of styles). TIP - Save as RTF and open/re-save in Word so that the numbered formatting is correct.

4. Below each citation, include an annotation with the following information (see examples below the directions):

  • the name of the database in which you found the source,
  • label the source as either a research article, review article, news article, or a case report

5. Put your name, the course name and the date in the upper left-hand corner of the document. 

6.  Submit the bibliography on Canvas

Example Annotated Bibliography: