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RefWorks

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RefWorks is a Web-based service that enables a user to create a personal database of selected references either by importing from an online research database or by inputting manually. This database is then searchable, enabling a user to select needed references for a paper and easily generate a bibliography in a given bibliographic style.
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Citation Generators

Citation Machine
http://citationmachine.net/
Citation Machine is a free interactive web tool designed to assist in generating APA, MLA and Chicago style citations (Turabian Style is under development.) The primary goal of this tool is to make is so easy to credit information sources, there is virtually no reason not to. Part of the Landmarks for Schools Web site.

KnightCite Citation Creator
http://webapps.calvin.edu/knightcite/index.php
A project of Heckman Library, Calvin College - KnightCite is a free resource that can be used to create citations in MLA, APA and Chicago formats for many types of print and electronic resources .

NoodleBib Express
http://www.noodletools.com/login.php
Just need one or two quick citations in APA or MLA format? You can use NoodleBib Express to generate them and then copy and paste what you need into your document.

Citing Electronic Resources

Columbia Guide to Online Style
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup/cgos2006/basic.html
Guidelines for citing electronic resources in both a humanities style (i.e., MLA and Chicago) and a scientific style (APA and CBE) by Janice R. Walker and endorsed by the Alliance for Computers & Writing.

How to Cite Electronic Sources
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/start/cite/index.html
Guidelines for citing electronic resources using MLA and Chicago styles for a variety of specialized electronic resources on the web including films, recorded sound, photographs, and more, uses materials from the Library of Congress' online collections as examples.

Online! A Reference Guide to Using Internet Sources
http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/online/shrttoc.html
Links by chapter to citing electronic resouces using MLA, APA, Chicago, and CBE styles by Andrew Harnack and Eugene Kleppinger.

APA Style Manuals & Citation Guides (psychology, education and other social sciences)

APA Style - Electronic Media and URLs
http://www.apastyle.org/elecmedia.html
From the American Psychological Association, this site is a guide to the revised and updated version of section 4.16 of the fifth edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (2001, pp. 268–281).
see also: Citations in Text of Electronic Material

APA Style - including 2007 Electronic References
http://www.nmu.edu/library/apastyle.htm
From Northern Michigan University, this site provides examples of APA citations, including citations of electronic materials using the newly revised APA style guidelines.

APA Tutorial
http://www.lib.usm.edu/legacy/tutorials/apatutorial/tutorialindex.html
Tutorial introducing APA style from the University of Southern Mississippi Libraries. Includes information on formatting your paper, doing parenthetical or in-text references and creating a reference list.

MLA Style Manuals & Citation Guides (literature, arts and humanities)

Getting Started with MLA Style
http://www.library.ubc.ca/pubs/mlastyle.html
MLA citation guide prepared by British Columbia University Library. Includes examples for both works cited page and parenthetical references (citations used with the text). Also includes information on how to cite online and other electronic media in MLA style.

MLA Bibliographic Citation Guide
http://dept.sccd.ctc.edu/cclib/Research_Help/Citation_Style_Guides/default.
asp
MLA citation guide by the Seattle Central Community College Library. Includes citation formats for print and electronic resources. Also links to MLA's official web page.

MLA Style - How to Document Information
http://www.lib.wsc.ma.edu/mlastyle.htm
MLA citation guide by the Westfield State College Ely Library. Includes examples for both works cited page and parenthetical references (citations used with the text). Also links to a page for citing web pages in MLA style.

Turabian & Chicago Style Manuals & Citation Guides (multidisciplinary)

AAG Style Guide
http://www.aag.org/Publications/Annals/Annals%20Style%20Sheet%2040105.pdf
Annals of the Association of American Geographers style manual for publication. The style guide is available as guidelines for authors and is often used by Geographers as the preferred citation style. It uses many elements from the Chicago Manual of Style.
Guidelines for author submission

Chicago-Style Citation Quick Guide
http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide.html
Part of the Chicago Manual of Style Online site. Gives common examples of materials cited in both the Chicago humanities style and the Chicago author-date system. Includes citations for electronic formats.

Turabian Documentation
http://www.wcu.edu/writingcenter/isource.asp?page=turabian_format.html
Basic guidelines for Turabian or Chicago citation formats prepared by the Western Carolina University Writing Center. Includes footnote and bibliography citation examples.

Turabian Style - Sample Footnotes and Bibliographic Entries (6th edition)
http://www.bridgew.edu/Library/turabian.cfm
Basic guidelines for Turabian citation formats prepared by Bridgewater State College.

AMA & Vancouver Style Manuals & Citation Guides: (medicine, health, and biological sciences)

AMA Citation Style
http://www.liu.edu/cwis/cwp/library/workshop/citama.htm
Based on the American Medical Association Manual of Style, 9th edition. Prepared by Long Island University Libraries.

AMA Style Guide
http://healthlinks.washington.edu/hsl/styleguides/ama.html
Guide to the most frequently used entries in the American Medical Association Manual of Style, 9th edition. Prepared by the University of Washington Health Sciences Libraries.

Citing Your Sources - Vancouver style
http://www.library.uwa.edu.au/education_training_and_support/guides/how_to_
cite_your_sources/citing_your_sources_-_vancouver_style
Primarily used in the medical field. A consecutive number is given to each source as it is referred to for the first time. This number becomes the unique identifier of that source if it is referred to again and the same number is repeated.

Instructions to Authors in the Health Sciences
http://mulford.meduohio.edu/instr/
The Raymon H. Mulford Library at the University of Toledo offers this comprehensive collection of links to Web sites that provide instructions to authors for over 3,500 journals in the health and life sciences.

Legal Citation (Bluebook)

Bluebooking Guide
http://www.nesl.edu/research/BlueBook/citation.cfm
Gives examples of Bluebook citations for various types of legal materials. Maintained by the New England School of Law.

Introduction to Basic Legal Citation
http://www.law.cornell.edu/citation/index.htm
Part of Cornell's Legal Information Institute, this site is maintained by Peter W. Martin. Revised to reflect changes in the most recent editions of the Bluebook and the ALWD Citation Manual.

Citing Government Publications

Brief Guide to Citing Government Publications
http://exlibris.memphis.edu/resource/unclesam/citeweb.html
Provides examples of the most common government documents citations. Examples are based on Chicago/Turabian style. From the University of Memphis University Libraries.

DocsCite
http://www.asu.edu/lib/hayden/govdocs/docscite/docscite.htm
A step-by-step guide to putting government publication citations into proper APA or MLA format. From the Arizona State University Libraries.

Writing Guides

Grammar Handbook
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/cws/wworkshop/writer_resources/grammar_handbook
/grammar_handbook.htm
Handbook by the Writers' Workshop, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign that explains and illustrates the basic grammatical rules concerning parts of speech, phrases, clauses, sentences and sentence elements, and common problems of usage.

Guide to Grammar & Style
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Writing/
A miscellany of grammatical rules and explanations, comments on style, and suggestions on usage created by J. Lynch, Rutgers University.

Writer's Handbook
http://www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook/
Produced by the Writing Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, this site offers an excellent collection of concise instructional materials for university students and instructors.