Kinesiology 206 ~ Nutrition

 

Books
• I-Share
  The "card catalog" of the A.C. Buehler Library. Use this resource to find books, journal titles, movies, and music owned by Elmhurst College, and information about items located in 71 academic and research libraries in Illinois.

 

• Sample Library of Congress Subject Headings:

Nutrition
Athletes--Nutrition
Body Weight--Physiology
Health
    Related Terms:Diet
                            Digestion
                            Exercise
                            Food
                            Gastronomy
• Selected Reference Resources & Selected Circulating Books from our collection.

Krause's Food, Nutrition & Diet Therapy 10th Edition R615.854 K91f 2000

Marketing Nutrition: Soy, Functional Foods, Biotechnology, and Obesity 615.854 W251M 2005

Controversies in Food and Nutrition 641.3 G624c

Nutrition Across the Life Span 612.3 M682N 2003N

Nutrition in Exercise and Sport 613.044 N976

Fitness Nutrition for Special Dietary Needs 613.2024 V931f 2007
 

Articles How can I tell if a journal is scholarly of not? Distinguishing Scholarly Journals from Other Periodicals

• Academic Search Complete
  Provides abstracts from almost 8,200 periodicals in the social sciences, humanities, general science, multicultural studies, and others, with full text articles from nearly 4,650 titles. PDF's go back to 1975 or further, and almost every topic of study is covered.

• CINAHL Plus with Full Text ~ The Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health database provides coverage of the literature related to nursing and allied health. Mainly indexes articles, but some full text available (there is no way to limit your search to full text only in this database).

• Medline Plus with Full Text ~International index to all areas of medicine, with accompanying full-text.

• Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition~ Selected full text includes nearly 480 scholarly full text journals, focusing on many medical disciplines.

• WilsonSelectPlus
  Covers the social sciences, humanities, business, general science, as well as current issues. There are over 2,100 sources dating back to 1994. All full text.

 

How do I find out if the Elmhurst College Library has the journal I need?

 

• Search for the journal title in our Alphabetical List of Journals Available Online

• Search for the journal title in I-Share and find that we own it in paper and find it located on our lower level arranged aphabetically by journal title

• How do I order a photocopy of an article I can't find at Elmhurst College?

 

 
Citing Sources

Using the Internet for Research

• The Writing Center ~ University of Wisconsin Madision

• Citing Sources ~Duke University Libraries APA site- very useful!

• Purdue's OWL (Online Writing Lab) for the APA style

• Using the APA Format for writing papers

• APA Guide to Library Research in Psychology

  • APA Guide to Electronic Media

• Publication manual of the American Psychological Association, call number R808.06615 P976 2001

  ~ The official manual on the APA format. Ask for this item at the reference desk. We also have a limited number of copies for checkout.

   

Citing Information

Below is an example, using APA format, of an Electronic copy of a journal article, with three to five authors, retrieved from database.

 Borman, W. C., Hanson, M. A., Oppler, S. H., Pulakos, E. D., & White,
   L. A. (1993). Role of early supervisory experience in supervisor
   performance. Journal of Applied Psychology, 78, 443-449. Retrieved
   October 23, 2000, from PsycARTICLES database.




This page was revised September 2008, by Donna Goodwyn, Head of Reference, Associate Librarian, Elmhurst College.