Citation Guides and Style Manuals: Citing Sources

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The OWL at Purdue University houses writing resources and instructional material. Excellent guides for every major citation style, with sections on everything from paper formatting to in-text citations. Goes beyond citation guides to provide general writing resources as well.

Covers citation styles in the Humanities, Social Sciences, History, and Science. Includes sample papers.

This work first appeared in 1993. It was recently revised in January 2010 and reflects changes appearing in the third edition of the ALWD Citation Manual, published in 2006. It is also keyed to the most recent edition of The Bluebook, published in 2005.

Zotero is a free browser extension to help you collect, manage, cite, and share your research sources. It works on most browsers and has a native application for several platforms.

Mendeley is a free reference manager and academic social network that can help you organize your research, collaborate with others online, and discover the latest research.

Software tool for publishing and managing bibliographies.

Pulls citation information from the source of your choice (including films, websites, and newspapers) and generates a formatted bibliography in APA, MLA, Chicago, or Turabian style. Must create a (free) account to use. You can also check out their citation guide tab for information on citation styles.

You provide the publication information and the citation builder generates the citation in MLA, APA, Chicago, and CBE/CSE.

You enter the citation information and this website generates bibliographic citations in MLA (7th edition), Turabian, or Chicago styles. No account or registration necessary for use.

Search, organize, share research, and automatically format bibliographies using the Free version of Endnote.