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Tips for EndNote: Authors' Names

EndNote has very particular rules about how to format authors' names so that they appear correctly in your in-text citations and reference lists. Each author has to appear on a separate line in the Author field of the record, and *must* follow one of the following two patterns: Smith, John OR John Smith EndNote can take either of those patterns to make the name appear in the right format in your paper (you can use initials instead of the authors' given names). This can get a little tricky if your author is a company or corporation (like, say, James Cook University Library ) or a name like Dalai Lama or Dr. Seuss , which have to be kept in order rather than broken into the surname, initial pattern. If you simply type James Cook University Library into the Author field, EndNote will put it in your in-text citations like this: (Library, 2015) .* And it will put it in your reference list like this: Library, J.C.U. (2012). The secret is the comma. EndNote as

Free Access to Digital Newspapers

To help you stay in touch with news in your community and beyond, JCU offers its staff and students unlimited digital access to The Townsville Bulletin, Cairns Post, The Courier Mail, The Australian, and many other News Corp newspapers. Free access to these newspapers is via a campus subscription offer. You must be on the JCU network (using Eduroam or a JCU computer) to activate your subscription. Once registered, you can access content anywhere, anytime. This complimentary digital campus subscription gives you unrestricted access to: The Townsville Bulletin (QLD) The Cairns Post (QLD) The Australian and The Weekend Australian (National) The Courier Mail and Sunday Mail (QLD) The Gold Coast Bulletin (QLD) The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph (NSW) The Advertiser and Sunday Mail (SA) The Herald Sun and Sunday Herald Sun (VIC) The Mercury and Sunday Tasmanian (TAS) NT News and Sunday Territorian (NT) The Geelong Advertiser (VIC) plus editorial newsletters for updates throughout

New Exhibition Opens at the Eddie Koiki Mabo Library!

Michael Cook, Majority Rule [Bridge] , 2014. Inkjet print on paper, ed 4/8, 84 x 120cm. Donated through the Australian Cultural Gifts Program by Caroline O'Rorke and Bruce Forbes Graham for the James Cook University Art Collection in 2023. Reproduced with permission. © Michael Cook, 2024. Photograph by Through the Looking Glass Studio. In May each year JCU Library endeavours to host the Eddie Koiki Mabo Library Art Exhibition , featuring artworks by an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander artist, to celebrate the anniversary of the official naming of the Eddie Koiki Mabo Library in 2008. This year’s exhibition Insights has been curated by the Library Special Collections team, and with the endorsement of exhibition patron Gail Mabo, to shine a light on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artworks in the James Cook University (JCU) Art Collection. It showcases a selection of these exciting works and provides some insights into their meanings, significance and the artist

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