You will need this information for the remainder of the course. Read carefully and email me via the INBOX in Webcourses if you have any questions about this topic.

The following (and others like it) are unacceptable sources for any of the assignments in this class (including your nutrition and exercise educational handout/final project) that requires scientific/academic/peer-reviewed journal articles:

https://www.today.com/health/how-much-protein-diet-too-much-t115350

https://www.muscleandfitness.com/workouts/workout-tips/6-worst-things-you-can-do-bigger-biceps-2/workout-tips/6-worst-things-you-can-do-bigger-biceps-2/

Essentially any article that is written on a website such as bodybuilding.com, webmd, shape.com, etc. is not classified as a scientific article. This is somewhat confusing because some of these articles will contain reference lists at the bottom, just like scientific articles. The key difference is that scientific papers are published in Journals. There are many other differences, such as scientific articles starting with an abstract and most being organized as IMRAD, as discussed in the Video and Chapter for this Module and last week’s Module.

The following (and others like it) are acceptable scientific sources:

DellaValle, DM and Haas, JD. Impact of iron depletion without anemia on performance in trained endurance athletes at the beginning of a training season: a study of female collegiate rowers. Int J Sport Nutr Exerc Metab 21: 501–506, 2011.

Dellavalle, DM and Haas, JD. Iron supplementation improves energetic efficiency in iron-depleted female rowers. Med Sci Sports Exerc 46: 1204–1215, 2014.

Weakley, J., Till, K., Read, D. B., Leduc, C., Roe, G. A., Phibbs, P. J., ... & Jones, B. (2018). Jump training in Rugby Union Players: Barbell or hexagonal bar?. Journal of strength and conditioning research/National Strength & Conditioning Association.

If you click on the links (make sure you are already logged into the UCF library portal), you will see that these articles are on Journal websites, and that the citations include the name of the journal.

**When using Google Scholar, you will occasionally open a link and it will not be to a peer-reviewed journal article. If you are having trouble with this, you may also use PubMed, which typically will only return peer-reviewed articles to you.**

Citing Scientific Articles (for Final Project)

Below is an example of how to properly cite and reference an article. When you are writing about one article at-a-time, as in the assignment on the next page, you do not need to do in-test citations. You only need to include the reference at the bottom. When you are writing about multiple article at once, as in your Final Project, you must use in-text citations as seen below:

26 women performed a 30-minute hatha yoga routine and consumed 54% less Oxygen and burned 53% less calories compared to when they walked on a treadmill at 3.5 mph (Clay et al., 2017). Based on these results, the authors suggest that hatha yoga is not an intense enough stimulus to cause significant adaptations for the cardiorespiratory system for healthy participants (Clay et al., 2017).

References

Clay, C. C., Lloyd, L. K., Walker, J. L., Sharp, K. R., & Pankey, R. B. (2005). The metabolic cost of hatha yoga. Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, 19(3), 604.

The following links are from an excellent free resource for how to cite and reference articles if you need or want further info:

In-Text Citations: The Basics

Reference List