Lesson 8 Lab: Medicinal Plant Project – ReferencesPurposeThe purpose of this exercise is to

Lesson 8 Lab: Medicinal Plant Project – ReferencesPurposeThe purpose of this exercise is to help you find reliable sources for your specific research topic and begin to create your References section to be used in your remaining research project assignments.
Reliable SourcesFor this assignment, you will be using the internet, resources at the PC Library, and hopefully interacting with a PC librarian to come up with at least ten (10) reliable sources that you could use to research your assigned medicinal plant. 
You may also want to consult two PC Library handouts to help you with this exercise. The BIO108 medicinal plant project library guide (Links to an external site.), this page includes links to science search engines that can help you locate reliable science websites.  The CRAAP Detector  (Links to an external site.)lists different techniques to help determine the reliability of a website.
You will also be required to develop a References section and cite your sources using the Council of Science Editors (CSE) citation style (Refer to the BIO108 LibGuide (Links to an external site.) or the PC Library Citations (Links to an external site.) page for help with CSE.).  References are to be listed in alphabetical order, all hyperlinks are to be active, and each reference will be followed by a  bolded, one-sentence explanation of why that is a reliable source.  To help explain why your sources are reliable, you may want to review Google Like a Librarian (Links to an external site.) and the CRAAP Detector (Links to an external site.).
InstructionsIdentify at least ten (10) sources that provide relevant, up-to-date, and reliable information on your research topic.At least 50% of your sources must be from the websites of respected health and/or research institutions (examples include WHO, CDC, WebMD, Mayo Clinic, NIH, MedlinePlus).
You may have no more than one peer-reviewed journal article in your References.  If you choose to include a peer-reviewed journal article, it must not be beyond the scope of the class.  If you do not understand the content in the article, do no use it.  I may ask you to defend your choice of peer-reviewed journal article.
Your textbook must be one of your sources
Databases and search engines are not sources.  Databases and search engines help you find sources.

Format your References section using the CSE citation style.
Using the resources from the Lesson 6 Lab (also listed above under Reliable Sources), you need to explain in one sentence how each of the sources that you have chosen is reliable.  
So, that is a References section with at least ten (10) reliable sources specific to your topic formatted using CSE -and- ten (10) reasons (one for each source) why each is reliable.
Example Below is a partial example of what this assignment should look like (there are only three listed here, but you must have at least ten).
The first two sources are formatted correctly with good explanations as to each source’s reliability.  The third source is not.  See notes in blue for why.
References
Dennis DT, Poland JD. 1999. Treatment of plague. In: Plague manual epidemiology, distribution, surveillance and control; [cited 2012 Feb 22]. http://www.who.int/csr/resources/publications/plague/whocdscsredc992b.pdf (Links to an external site.).
The World Health Organization is the authority on international health within the United Nations system.
Griffith KS, Mead PS. 2011. Plague (bubonic, pneumonic, septicemic). In: Infectious diseases related to travel; [cited 2010 Feb 22]. http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/yellowbook/2012/chapter-3-infectious-diseases-related-to-travel/plague-bubonic-pneumonic-septicemic.htm. (Links to an external site.)
The Center for Disease Control is one of the major components of the US Department of Health and Human Services whose mission is “to enhance and protect the health and well-being of all Americans . . . by providing for effective health and human services and fostering advances in medicine, public health, and social services. ”
Lerner KL, Lerner BW. 2005. Bubonic plague. In: World of forensic science [Internet]. Detroit (MI): Gale; [cited 2012 Feb 22]. Vol. 1, p. 112-113. Available from Gale Virtual Reference Library thru Phoenix College Library
The Gale Virtual Reference Library links directly from the PC Library web site and provides reference sources covering a variety of subjects.
Please note that the Gale Virtual Reference Library, or any database for that matter, is not really the source.  In this citation, the book, World of Forensic Science, is the source.  Why is that book reliable?  One reason is that both authors are authorities in public health.
All sources from a website must have a URL.  There is no URL at the end of this citation.