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Citation Help 

Tips on citing MLA, APA, Chicago and other citation styles
Last update: Oct 04th, 2009 URL: http://libguides.longwood.edu/citation  Print Guide  RSS Updates

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Welcome to the Citation Help Guide. On these pages you will find helpful information for many different types of citation styles. Please share with us how to make this guide more useful to you by making suggestions, submitting links, rating, and taking polls.

 

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Citation Maker Tools

Please keep in mind that the following tools are not perfect. It is highly recommended that you verify the accuracy of any citations produced by these tools using the citation style's official manual.

  • BibMe  
      
    A free online citation creator that will store more than one citation at a time. You may search their database for your resource and if it's there, a citation will be created automatically. Covers APA, MLA, Chicago, and Turabian.
  • Citation Builder  
      
    Excellent citation-maker from UNC Libraries
  • Citation Machine  
      
    Another free online citation creator. Covers APA, MLA, Chicago, and Turabian.
  • Citing Sources  
      
    From Duke University Libraries this great site shows how to cite both online and print sources in APA, Chicago, MLA, and Turabian formats.
  • KnightCite Citation Service  
      
    This tool will help you format your citations in MLA, APA, & Chicago styles.
  • Noodlebib Express  
      
    A free online tool that can create only one citation at a time based on information you provide about the source you are trying to cite. Covers MLA and APA citation styles.
  • RefWorks  
      
    RefWorks is a web-based tool in which you can automatically create bibliographies in all major styles (APA, MLA, etc.) by directly or indirectly importing citations from any of the library's databases.
  • WorksCited4U  
      
    Yet another online citation creation tool. Similar to BibMe, WorksCited4U allows you to search for the source you are trying to cite and if found, will create the citation automatically. Covers APA, MLA, and Chicago.
  • Zotero  
      
    It is a free Firefox extension that helps you collect, manage, and cite your research sources. It lives in the web browser itself.
 

RefWorks

RefWorks logoClick the logo to access RefWorks, a web-based citation tool available to Longwood students, faculty and staff.

For more information about using RefWorks, click here.

 

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Thank You!

Special thanks to Eric Hartnett @ University of Texas Tyler for allowing us to adapt this guide.

 
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