This course is aimed at undergraduate and post graduate students who wish to improve their skills in managing and using their references in their academic writing. In the course, we will demonstrate the use of reference management using Mendeley and to create and design survey with questionnaire as a research tool.

The course will build skills and enable an understanding of the importance to cite scientific literature while reporting research work. It will equip participants with skills to cite literature appropriately and accurately. They will also learn about other reference management software tools that are commonly used to read, manage, and create bibliographies. This course equips the students and researchers with skills to write original scientific research articles with attention to the quality and to cite while they write and efficiently manage the references.