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Note: To complete the procedures in this document, you must be assigned a role having the necessary permissions. To determine your role, follow the directions in Participant roles. For a basic understanding of roles and permissions, see Permissions and roles.

Adding a citation list

To create and display a citation list in your Resources area, follow these steps:

Note: To complete the procedures in this document, you must be assigned a role having the necessary permissions. To determine your role, follow the directions in Participant roles. For a basic understanding of roles and permissions, see Permissions and roles.

Adding a citation list

To create and display a citation list in your Resources area, follow these steps:

1. In your site's menubar, click Resources.
2. Next to the folder to which you want to add the citation list, mouse over Add, and click Add Citation List.
3. Choose Create New Citation.
4. Next to "Select Citation Type", use the drop-down list to choose from the following:
   • Journal Article
   • Book
   • Book Section
   • Report
   • Unknown
5. Enter all of the appropriate information for the citation, and then click Add another to add another citation, or Save Citation to save the citation.
6. On the Revise Citation List page, make any needed changes to the list (e.g., revise an existing citation, add citations to the list, or remove citations from the list), and click Finish.
7. Enter a title and an optional description in the text areas provided.
8. Choose your citation list's copyright status, add copyright information, and display a copyright alert:
   • If you select Use copyright below , a text box will appear in which you can add information about the copyright.
   • For information about copyright and fair use, click more info.
   • If you would like to display the terms to users when they access your citation list, select Display copyright alert and require acknowledgment when accessed by others. This option will require users to agree to the copyright terms to view the citation list. To see the alert, click what's this?. You cannot edit this alert.
9. Under "Availability and Access", control who can access the citation list and when its available, as follows:
   • To display the citation list to site members only, select Only members of this site can see this file.
   • To share the citation list with another site to which you belong (e.g., as an attachment to a syllabus item for another course or project you're leading), select This file is publicly viewable. (This option is not available if the folder to which you're adding the page is publicly viewable.)
   • To display the citation list only to selected groups, select Display this file to selected groups only, and then select the group(s) that should have access. For more information on groups, see Managing groups.
   • To show or hide your citation list, or set a beginning and/or ending date for its visibility, click the appropriate selections. (This option does not appear when you're adding an item to Resources in My Workspace.) Site administrators will always be able to see hidden items, even when they are hidden from other users.
10. Next to "Email Notification", specify whether or not you want to have members of the site notified automatically via email when the resource is posted. (This option does not appear when you're adding an item to Resources in My Workspace.)
11. Click Finish.

Note: Alternatively, you can use Resources to search Google Scholar, a world-wide database of scholarly resources, and save your results to a citation list. To do so, after clicking Add Citation List, click Search Google Scholar. Then, use the search engine to find the article you want to cite, and then click Import into bSpace. In the subsequent window, to search for and add more citations, click Back to Google Scholar, or if you're finished importing citations, click Close Window. Continue the process of adding your citation list, starting at step 6 above.

Editing a citation list's details

To edit the name, description, copyright status, or availability and access settings for a citation list, mouse over Actions, and then click Revise Details. Make your changes, and then click Update to save them.

Revising a citation list

To revise the content of a citation list, mouse over Actions, and then click Revise Citation List. You can edit existing citations, and add or remove citations from the list. When you're finished revising your list, click Done Revising List.