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Fixing Bibliographic References:
Practice Example

Question
Suppose that you have a bibliographic reference that seems to be wrong, and you have not easily been able to fix it. Here the reference is:
M. Overduin and T. Beer (2000) The plot thickens: How thrombin modulates blood clotting, Nature Struct. Biol., 18(1): 69-70.

Suppose that you also know that the full name of the first author is Michael J. Overduin.

Now use the Web (but not a journal index) to see if you can fix this bibliographic reference.

 
 
 
 
 

 

 

 


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Suggested Solution
  1. Go to Google
  2. Using the search string "Michael J. Overduin", we find over a dozen references.
  3. If we go to the 1st of these, Pew Scholars Program in the Biomedical Sciences - Michael J. Overduin, we find a link to his website at http://www.cancerstudies.bham.ac.uk/cancer/staff/MichaelOverduin.shtml.
  4. If we then click on the link to Automated Pub Med Search for Prof Michael Overduin, we readily discover that the reference in question should read:

    Overduin M, de Beer T.

    The plot thickens: how thrombin modulates blood clotting.
    Nat Struct Biol. 2000 Apr;7(4):267-9.

     

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