User talk:Echilcot12/sandbox

Citing sources

Hi, Echilcot12! I saw your edit summary about learning to cite properly, so popped over here to give you a hand. You have:

Ryle, Anthony; Fawkes, Liz (2007). "Multiplicity of Selves and Others: A cognitive analytic approach". Journal of Clinical Psychology. 63 (2). doi:10.1002/jclp.20339. Retrieved 19 February 2015.

The only thing you could do differently is that access dates are not required on Wikipedia for journal articles. The DOI links to the abstract, and the URL links to the full text, which is correct, but I thought I'd mention that we don't include the URL parameter unless the article has free full text (which in this case, it does). And, you left off the month and page numbers. So, a correct citation would be:

Ryle, Anthony; Fawkes, Liz (February 2007). "Multiplicity of Selves and Others: A cognitive analytic approach". Journal of Clinical Psychology. 63 (2): 165–74. doi:10.1002/jclp.20339. PMID 17173319.

Regards, SandyGeorgia (Talk) 22:33, 19 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Oops ... and you left off the PubMed identifier (PMID), so I've added it. From looking at the information in the PMID, you can see that this is a case report, so it is not the kind of source that can be used for most medical statements (see WP:MEDRS). SandyGeorgia (Talk) 22:37, 19 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Sandy has a good point about the Ryle & Fawkes article being a case study. Also, I skimmed the article and it's not really clear to me that the eight different ways multiplicity manifests itself are actually discussed in it. But, there are some references listed by Ryle & Fawkes that could be good to look for more info in. ScottPKingPhD (talk) 14:31, 24 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]