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Referencing within Sport and Exercise Sciences
The BSc Sport and Exercise Sciences programme uses the Harvard Referencing style.
The BSc and MSc Sport Psychology programmes use the American Psychological Association (APA) style for most modules. However, for some non-psychology based modules, Sport Psychology students may be required to use the Harvard style. Please speak with your module convener if you have questions about which style to use.
Full details and examples of both styles can be found on Cite Them Right.
For further help and guidance with referencing, see the Library's Referencing guides.
Below are the specialist databases for sport & exercise science research and clinical evidence, free to access with your Roehampton login. Most provide the full text, but sometimes just brief details (citation and abstract) of the articles. Click the Search4FullText button to see if you can access the article via our eJournals; if not, you can order it free via Interlibrary Loan.
Those most relevant to Sport & Exercise Science are:
- SportDiscus with Full-Text This link opens in a new window
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Includes full-text access to over 400 sport-related journals.
- Human Kinetics Library This link opens in a new window
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Sport, physical activity and dance eBooks, also includes a suite of instructional videos, images and audio clips.
- PEDro: the Physiotherapy Evidence Database (Open Access Resource) This link opens in a new window
An open access database from the University of Sydney, providing an index to randomised controlled trials, systematic reviews and clinical practice guidelines.
You also have access to a range of more general life and health science databases, including:
- Annual Reviews Online This link opens in a new window
Provides researchers, academics, and scientific professionals with a definitive academic resource in more than 45 scientific disciplines. The articles capture the current understanding of a topic. This includes what is current and controversial, questions remaining, direction of future research and application to society.
- CINAHL with Full Text This link opens in a new window
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Full text coverage of leading nursing and allied health literature. Topics include: nursing, biomedicine, alternative/complementary medicine, and allied health disciplines such as physiotherapy.
- Cochrane Library This link opens in a new window
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A collection of databases providing up-to-date, high-quality, independent evidence (such as systematic reviews) to inform healthcare decision-making.
- Cochrane Library of Systematic Reviews (Open Access Resource) This link opens in a new window
The Cochrane Library is designed to supply high quality evidence to inform health care decision-making.
- Medline (Web of Science platform) This link opens in a new window
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The U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) premier life sciences database. Check out our Spotlight on Nursing and Healthcare Resources blog post.
- Ovid This link opens in a new window
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Premium nursing and allied health database, ideal for practice, research, or education, with millions of records including full text eBooks and journals.
- PsycINFO This link opens in a new window
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Index of over 1.5 million journal articles, books, book chapters, technical reports, and dissertations in all aspects of psychology from 1887 to the present.
- PubMed (Open Access Resource) This link opens in a new window
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A free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal articles at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM).
- ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window
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Contains over 2500 scientific, technical and medical peer-reviewed journals from the publisher Elsevier.
- Web Of Science Core Collection This link opens in a new window
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Database comprising Science, Social Science and Arts & Humanities citation indexes.
- Wiley Online Library This link opens in a new window
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A multidisciplinary collection of online resources (including over 1500 journals published by Wiley) covering life, health and physical sciences, social science, and the humanities.
Further resources you can access online include thousands of newspapers and magazines, and tools to help with planning your research:
- PressReader This link opens in a new window
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Access thousands of current, international newspapers and magazines. You can also download the PressReader App. Note: To log in, click sign in at the top of the screen, select Library or Group, then find University of Roehampton and Sign In via Open Athens. Spotlight on PressReader blog post.
- Sage Research Methods Online This link opens in a new window
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Provides help, guidance and tools for designing, writing and reporting research projects.
- Bates' Visual Guide to Physical Examination This link opens in a new window
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Based on Bates’ Guide to Physical Examination and History Taking, this video platform has over 230 videos covering head-to-toe physical examination techniques and clinical reasoning content for skills-based assesments.
Other useful web resources:
- Bates' Visual Guide to Physical Examination This link opens in a new window
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Based on Bates’ Guide to Physical Examination and History Taking, this video platform has over 230 videos covering head-to-toe physical examination techniques and clinical reasoning content for skills-based assesments.
New Resource: Cite Them Right - APA Style Online Referencing Help
Please Note: Students using Harvard referencing should consult Roehampton's Harvard Referencing guidance.
You can find what you're looking for at the link below by searching or browsing and it works on your tablet or smartphone, so you’ll always have the guidance you need at hand.
You will find more 'Help and FAQs' at the top of the page once you have logged into Cite Them Right.
- Cite Them Right This link opens in a new window
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Cite Them Right is a comprehensive guide to referencing almost any source material you will come across in the course of your studies. For guidance on how to use Cite Them Right and which referencing style you should use, see our Referencing web page.
These databases are most relevant to Sport and Exercise Psychology. For the full range of Psychology related resources available at Roehampton, see the Psychology subject guide.
- Counselling & Psychotherapy Transcripts Volume II This link opens in a new window
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Contains transcripts of therapy sessions recorded from 2012 onwards, covering contemporary issues and treatments. The collection features a diverse set of clients, a wide range of presenting issues, and multiple therapeutic approaches. The resource adheres to the APA’s Ethics Guidelines for use and anonymity.
- Counselling and Therapy in Video This link opens in a new window
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Stream current video content in the contemporary fields of social work, psychotherapy, psychology, and psychiatric counselling.
- Open Access Psychology Journals (Open Access Resource) This link opens in a new window
A handy guide from Adelphi University.
- PEP-Web This link opens in a new window
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A digital archive of many of the major works of psychoanalysis, including the complete works of Sigmund Freud and complete versions of other classic texts. Spotlight on PEP-Web blog post.
- PsycArticles This link opens in a new window
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A database of full-text, peer-reviewed articles published by the American Psychological Association and allied organisations.
- PsycBooks This link opens in a new window
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Full text of over 4,600 eBooks and 69,000 book chapters published by the American Psychological Association (APA).
- PsycINFO This link opens in a new window
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Index of over 1.5 million journal articles, books, book chapters, technical reports, and dissertations in all aspects of psychology from 1887 to the present.
- PsychOpen (Open Access Resource) This link opens in a new window
The European Open-Access Publishing Platform for Psychology.
- PsycTESTS This link opens in a new window
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A specialist database containing a mix of full text and abstract records of unpublished tests and measures for use in the fields of psychology, education, psychiatry, business, and social work. Many test instruments are ready-to-use, available for download as a PDF.