Radiologic Technology: How-Tos

• Limit your search to peer-reviewed sources by checking a box on the search screen,  when searching for articles in certain interfaces (GALILEO, EBSCO, etc).
• Visit the journal's webpage for editorial statement or instructions to authors for references to the peer-review process.
• If the print journal is available, read through the editorial statement or instructions to authors for references to the peer-review process.
• Use Ulrich's international periodicals directory (Athens Ref Z6941 .P44).

Purdue OWL AMA style

AMA citation in-text and reference samples

AMA manual of style : a guide for authors and editors (R119 .A533 2020 Reference)

Citations found in GALILEO are often inaccurate and must be edited. If the article has a DOI (digital object identifier), use that number instead of the URL. If there is no DOI, use the URL and the date of access (Accessed: date). Do not include the database name. Do not include [serial online].

• NLM catalog: A National Library of Medicine collection.
• Journal title abbreviations from Caltech 
• Publication's webpage
• Physical journal's preface or foreword

Athens Tech library has a reciprocal borrowing agreement with the University of Georgia libraries. If you are ATC faculty, staff or a student in need of use of the UGA libraries, please come by ATC library and get the documents needed for UGA library card. 

1st choice:  GALILEO

2nd choice: O.W.L. (ATC Catalog)

3rd choice: GOOGLE Scholar  / GOOGLE (ResearchGate, and other open access)

4st choice:  Interlibrary Loan (qfang@athenstech.edu)

*Please check open access articles via DOAJ for credibility.

Google Scholar setup on your personal computer.

We can borrow materials for you from other libraries. It's called Interlibrary Loan, and it's a free service that Athens Tech library provides for its faculty, staff and students. If you need any material that you can't find in the library, please submit your request here.