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Citing Your Sources Guide

This guide is intended to help you cite sources, avoid plagiarism, learn about citation styles and available citation tools, and more.

Citation Managers: What are They and Why Use Them?

Citation Managers are bibliographic management programs that will help you keep track of articles and books as you find them, organize your references and create bibliographies in 100s of citation styles (e.g., APA, MLA, Chicago, Turabian, etc.)

They will also allow you to:

  • Import citations as you research from databases and catalogs
  • Save and organize citations
  • Attach PDFs of articles, when available
  • Embed citations (footnotes or in-text) into your word processing documents
  • Collaborate with others online
  • Discover the latest research

BibMe

BibMe is a free research and reference manager which generations citations and bibliographies. It also allows users to save citations for access from any computer linked to the Internet. Create a free BibMe account This link opens in a new window or sign in if you already have one.

More information about Mendeley is available on BibMe's website This link opens in a new window or visit theBibMe help guides This link opens in a new window for more assistance using this product.

EasyBib

EasyBib is a free research and reference manager which generations citations and bibliographies. It also allows users to save citations for access from any computer linked to the Internet. Create a free EasyBib account This link opens in a new window or sign in to your account if you already have one.

More information about EasyBib is available on EasyBib's website This link opens in a new window or visit the EasyBib help guides This link opens in a new window for more assistance using this product.

Mendeley

Mendeley is a free research and reference manager which generations citations and bibliographies. It also allows users to save citations for access from any computer linked to the Internet. Create a free Mendeley account This link opens in a new window or sign in if you already have one.

More information about Mendeley is available on Mendeley's website This link opens in a new window or visit the Mendeley help guides This link opens in a new window and Mendeley video tutorials This link opens in a new window for more assistance using this product.

Zotero

Zotero is a free research and reference organizer that helps you collect and organize your research and cite your sources. It also allows users to save citations and bibliographies for access from any computer linked to the Internet. Create a free Zotero account This link opens in a new window or sign in if you already have one.

More information about Zotero is available on the Zotero Website This link opens in a new window or visit the Zotero quick start guide This link opens in a new window and Zotero video tutorials This link opens in a new window for more assistance using this product.