Research Guides: Citing Sources: Home

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Purpose

This guide is intended to help you begin citing your sources, according to the style manual your professor has told you to use.

If you need additional details on using a particular style, copies of most major style guides can be borrowed from the Library Service Desk on the 2nd floor of the library.

Visual Guide to Citations

Having trouble finding where to get the information required to cite? Use EasyBib's Visual Guides to Citations to see where to locate the needed information on your source.

APA Citation Guide (from Mendeley)
APA Visual Guide to Citation
Shows you where to find citation information on a source.
Chicago Visual Guide to Citation
Shows you where to find citation information on a source.
MLA Citation Guide (from Mendeley)
MLA Visual Guide to Citation

Citation Managers

A citation manager is software or an app that helps you organize and cite sources. They are especially useful when writing long papers that require the use of many sources, like dissertations, capstones, articles, etc.

Most citations managers allow you to:

Collect lists of articles, books, webpages, etc.
Format bibliographies using a particular citation style
Store the source materials
Insert in-text citations and bibliography entries while writing in Microsoft Word

EndNote Web

EndNote is a Web-based bibliography and database manager that allows users to create their own personal database by importing references from text files or online databases. They can use these references in writing their papers and automatically format the paper and the bibliography in seconds.