What sources do our students consult? When you have proposed them to produce and present some assignment or exercise, it is very likely that you have been confronted with situations where no bibliographical sources are quoted, they are only web pages, or they are incomplete defined. So, what is happening? Probably, nobody has ever taught them, beyond a brief generic mention, how to select bibliography, how to discern the quality of the sources, how to cite the references. We simply throw them the task.

Republication of the article originally published in the University Education section of SEBBM Journal, issue 182, December 2014 (the Journal of the Spanish Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology). It is republished here after the journal's original website was taken down.