CITATION INFORMATION AND GUIDELINES

Dr. Carolina Valdivia provides citation information guidelines on how to reference material presented on glaucoma-eye-info.com.

I have received a number of requests from students, academic faculty, organizations, and other interested parties about how to cite articles, images, and diagrams that are presented on glaucoma-eye-info.com. It always is flattering to have someone else view your work as sufficiently valuable to include it as a bibliography citation in their own work. To help streamline the process for those interested, I am listing citation information and guidelines on this page.

Let me start by saying that if you are a student or faculty member at a school, college, or university, or if you are a non-profit organization and it is your intention to use information presented on this website (including pictures and diagrams) for an academic presentation, a paper for a class assignment, or brochures, pamphlets, and websites (for non-profit or educational purposes), you do not have to contact me to ask for permission to use the material. However, you are required to use standard citation guidelines, such as those presented below, when referencing any material associated with this website.

If you are a for-profit entity, including owners or webmasters of websites that sell products and/or that have advertising, then you are required to contact me to seek permission to use images and diagrams presented on glaucoma-eye-info.com, indicating how you plan to use the material and for what purpose. For other material, follow the article citation guidelines below.

Thus far, I never have denied a request for the legitimate use of material on glaucoma-eye-info.com. However, I have had to report the improper use of material presented here to website host providers and to search engines. Do not put yourself at risk. Simply ask. I probably will say yes.

Unless otherwise indicated, all articles, images and diagrams appearing on glaucoma-eye-info.com are the original work of Carolina Valdivia, MD and Angela Pattatucci, PhD, and we are sole holders of the copyright to them.

CITATION INFORMATION FOR ARTICLES

I recommend using the American Psychological Association Style to cite an article appearing on glaucoma-eye-info.com. The website Study Guides and Strategies has a good general description of how to do this, as well as how organize reference material according to other citation styles (MLA, AMA, Chicago, Turabian/Harvard).

Below I present specific bibliography citation information to include for glaucoma-eye-info.com.

For authors, use: Valdivia, C. and Pattatucci A.
For date of publication, use: (n.d.)
For title, use: title of the page on which the information was obtained.
For title of website, use: Glaucoma and Eye Disease Information
For date retrieved, use: the most recent date on which you retrieved the information.
For the specific source listing, copy and paste the URL of the page on which the material is located.

The following is a sample bibliography citation.

Valdivia, C. and Pattatucci, A. (n.d.) Self-Diagnosis and its Potential Problems. In Glaucoma and Eye Disease Information. Retrieved October 11, 2011, from http://www.glaucoma-eye-info.com/Self-Diagnosis.html.

In-text citation information appears after text in your document that you are quoting or paraphrasing from glaucoma-eye-info.com. Simply place the authors last names in parentheses as follows: (Valdivia and Pattatucci, n.d.). This truncated version allows the reader to directly access the full citation listed in your bibliography at the end of your document.

If you are citing material from more than one source on glaucoma-eye-info.com, then readers must be able to distinguish one citation listing in the bibliography from the other. Using the basic guidelines above, this would be impossible, as all in-text citation entries would have the same authors (Valdivia and Pattatucci, n.d.). To solve this problem, simply assign a small-case letter to each different citation as follows: (Valdivia and Pattatucci, n.d., a), (Valdivia and Pattatucci, n.d., b), etc. The small-case letter also must be added to the full bibliography citation at the end of your document as follows: Valdivia, C. and Pattatucci, A. (n.d., a) . . . etc.

CITATION INFORMATION FOR IMAGES AND DIAGRAMS

To cite images and/or diagrams appearing on glaucoma-eye-info.com, the procedure is similar. Simply place a caption under the image or diagram that states: Courtesy of Carolina Valdivia, MD and Angela Pattatucci, PhD [copy and paste the URL of the page on which the material is located here].

You do not have to list a full bibliography citation at the end of your document, if this procedure is followed.

That is it! Adhere to these citation guidelines, and there will be no problem. If you are unsure, write to me and ask at valdivia@glaucoma-eye-info.com.

Good luck with your work!

Carolina Valdivia, MD

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