Cite Your Sources

For general guidance with citation

• The OWL at Purdue: APA and MLA styles. A complete guide, including in-text citations, paper formatting and works cited pages.
• Research and Documentation by Diana Hacker: All styles. A complete guide, check out the sample papers.
• Assemble a list of works cited [North Carolina State University]: All styles. A description of citation and clickable links to examples.

To generate citations automatically

• For beginners, Noodletools (free version only): APA and MLA. Fill in the information for your source and Noodletools will generate a citation for you.
• On the EBSCO platform (Acad Search Premier, ERIC, Education Abstracts, PsycINFO, etc.): All styles. From the article’s abstract page, click on the Cite icon to generate a citation.
• Worldcat: All styles. Look up a book (and a limited number of articles) & use the “Cite this Item” link.

Tutorials on Citation

• Citation Puzzle: Explains how to find the information used in citations.
• MLA Citations: Explains how to format MLA Citations.
• APA Citations:  Directs students to appropriate APA tutorials and examples.
• Decoding Citations:  Explains how to interpret citations found in scholarly sources.
• Citations and MS Word:  Explains how to structure your bibliography in MS Word (using APA examples)

For difficult questions & more complete guidance

Consult the following style manuals, available at the Reference Desk

• APA: Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association
• APSA: Style manual for political science
• MLA: MLA style manual and guide to scholarly publishing
• Chicago/Turabian: A manual for writers of research papers, theses, and dissertations