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FS HN 203: Contemporary Issues in FS & HN

This guide is designed to help FSHN 203 students locate articles and then use Mendeley to move article citations into a Word document for class assignments.

Finding Articles

The ISU Library subscribes to many different article databases. The complete list is available under "Articles & Databases" on the Library's website.

Exporting Citations

Once you find articles you like, you can save/mark them and then export them to use in Mendeley. These steps vary for different databases:

Academic Search Ultimate and Food Science & Technology Abstracts

  • Click on blue folder on the RIGHT side of articles you like (this will move articles to a folder)
  • When you are done selecting articles and are ready to export them, click on Folder View.
  • Click on Exportuse “Export as an RIS file"
  • Click on Save / Save file. It will name the file Delivery.RIS and save it in your downloads folder or wherever you tell it to save downloads.
  • Open Mendeley - use File / Import. Browse to find the file you saved and select it. The reference should now be available under ALL Documents as well as Recently Added. You can also create folders and drag/drop references into various folders. They will always remain in All Documents as well.

Search Tips

Exact phrase - put it in quotations

  • licorice AND "blood pressure"

Find specific types of articles:

  • licorice AND (study OR patients OR trial)
  • licorice AND "literature review*"

Find magazines or journals: look in the left sidebar of database results pages for the option to Limit To Magazines or Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals

Truncate terms if appropriate. Adding an * at the end of a word will search for alternate word endings. For example, clon* will retrieve cloning, clone, clones, clonal.