Is it common to reference everything throughout slides or just on last slide?

[Gavanshir]

Hello,

Sorry if this is a stupid question, but I'd like to know if it's common practice in scientific research to cite references throughout presentation slides in a journal club-type presentation where you are presenting another lab's work.

Would you superscript numbers to each bullet point through the presentation referring to the references on the last slide?

I'm working in a team and the leader believes that's how it should be done while I have never seen this and find the numbers distracting in the powerpoint slides.

Thank you!

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[Vihsadas]

If this is just an in-house common journal club type thing, I don't think I've ever seen someone reference the bullet points on slides for a journal club. Just put your references at the end. Or, at the most, put a small bibliographical reference at the very bottom of the slide. Superscript in presentation slides is unorthodox. You should, however, reference all of your figures.

That being said, the most common presentation mistake is too many words! So, so many people at all levels including,ugrad students, profs, grad students etc. make this critical error. You should use as little *words* as possible on your presentation slides. It's a presentation! If you are saying something it should not be on a slide unless its an extremely central point, OR, if you are a professor giving an undergraduate lecture where the students will be tested on the material and thus would like to have bullet points on every slide.
Diagrams, graphs, or any other visual aid should be completely dominant for a journal club type thing or an academic presentation of any sort. Presentations with words on every slide are almost always more boring than those who use visual aids and explain the points verbally. GL!

P.S. I think we go to the same school. hah. What class/event is this presentation for?

 

[RxnMan]

Hello,

Sorry if this is a stupid question, but I'd like to know if it's common practice in scientific research to cite references throughout presentation slides in a journal club-type presentation where you are presenting another lab's work.

Would you superscript numbers to each bullet point through the presentation referring to the references on the last slide?

I'm working in a team and the leader believes that's how it should be done while I have never seen this and find the numbers distracting in the powerpoint slides.

Thank you!

I generally will have a superscript number referencing the citation and have citations listed at the end on a separate slide. You really only need to do the major points, too. It isn't a paper, where you can have a reference every line. I generally reference introductory statements ( X number of people have Y disease in 20--, Nat'l Y Disease Inst.) and major components of the hypothesis (Authors 1 says 2 and 3 have effects on 4, so we chose to test this under new conditions 5). Note in the last example I just gave the reference within the bullet point.