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How to create your bibliography using APA
At Melbourne High School, we recommend the APA referencing style.
APA style is an author-date citation style.
Everything you know about how to create a bibliography is here in this guide.
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At the time of reading a source, record all of the bibliographic information (descriptive elements) necessary to create a citation. You can either use referencing software or record manually. It is vital to be accurate and clear at this stage to save time later on.
The information you should record:
- Author(s)/editor(s).
- Title.
- Edition (1st, 2nd, reprint ed. revised ed. etc.).
- Page numbers for direct quotations (optional for secondary school)
- Place of publication.
- Publisher.
- Date of publication.
- Web address if online resources and Date Accessed.
Homework | Revision
- GCSE biologyRevision material from the BBC
Lessons
The Khan Academy Videos on YouTube which have been recorded by Salman Khan.
The Stanford School of Medicine Lectures on human biology, health and disease, medical research, and health care. The lectures are available through iTunes and YouTube.
Crash Course is an educational YouTube channel started by John and Hank Green, it is both informative and easy to understand.
The Open Door
- Biology"The IB Biology section of the Open Door Web Site is suitable for International Baccalaureate and A-level biology students. All of the information sheets in these chapters have been contributed by Paul Billiet."
General sites
- Biology4kidsBasic biology and life sciences information
- BiotopicsParticularly useful for Year 10 topics
- Dictionary of Biologybiology-online.org
Images
"The Digital Morphology library is a dynamic archive of information on digital morphology and high-resolution X-ray computed tomography of biological specimens. Browse through the site and see spectacular imagery and animations and details on the morphology of many representatives of the Earth's biota.
The Encyclopedia of Life is a database that aims to have an electronic image of each species of organism to be found on the planet. Best results are obtained when searched by scientific name.
Microscope imaging station From Exploratorium
VCE Biology
Interactives and Animations
- Biology in motionIncludes cartoon mini-lectures, key terms, interactive self-tests and animated simulations.
- Biology movies and animationsJohn Giannini's short animations of biological processes
5 Labs including bacterial identification, inherited diseases of the heart, neurophysiology, gene expression and immunology
Founded in 2002 by Nobel Laureate Carl Wieman, the PhET Interactive Simulations project at the University of Colorado Boulder creates free interactive math and science simulations. PhET sims are based on extensive education research and engage students through an intuitive, game-like environment where students learn through exploration and discovery.
Journals
"PNAS is one of the world's most-cited and comprehensive multidisciplinary scientific journals, publishing more than 3,500 research papers annually.
The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), the official journal of the US National Academy of Sciences (NAS), is an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans the biological, physical, and social sciences. The journal is global in scope and submission is open to all researchers worldwide."
Explore scientific, technical, and medical research
"A pioneer of open access publishing, BMC has an evolving portfolio of high quality peer-reviewed journals including broad interest titles such as BMC Biology and BMC Medicine, specialist journals such as Malaria Journal and Microbiome, and the BMC Series.
Expanding beyond biomedicine into the physical sciences, mathematics and engineering disciplines, BMC now offers a wider portfolio of subject fields on a single open access platform."
BioEthics
"BioethicsBytes is a project established and maintained by Chris Willmott at the University of Leicester, UK." "This site hosts a collection of resources to assist in the teaching of bioethics, with particular emphasis on multimedia materials (film, TV, streamed media) as case studies."
BEEP (BioEthics Education Project)
"It is an interactive website and virtual learning environment for secondary school science teachers and their students. It is a teaching resource developed to highlight the moral, ethical, social, economic, environmental and technological implications and applications of biology."