Zotero And EndNote
You will always need to look over and edit your citations even if you use a robust citation tool, but these tools are very useful to tracking and organizing your research.
Other citation tools
Looking for Noodle Tools, EasyBib, and the like? We encourage you to try Zotero or EndNote (above) because of their robustness and their good data privacy practices.
If you're looking for help with tools other than Zotero and EndNote, here are some useful links:
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Citation BuilderThis is an online citation generation from NCSU's library. Put in your citation and this tool helps you get it into the correct format.
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EasyBibIndividual subscription required for styles other than MLA.
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KnightCiteThis is an online citation generator from Calvin College. Plug in your citation and this tool helps you create the proper formatting.
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MendeleyMendeley, owned by Elsevier, lets you save and annotate PDFs. You can also search across your own and others people's collections.
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Noodle ToolsIndividual subscription required.
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PaperpileIndividual subscription needed.
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Papers (Mac & IOS only)Search, annotate, organize, and share PDFs.
Major Style Guides
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MLA HandbookCall Number: Ready Reference LB2369 .G53 2016ISBN: 9781603292627Publication Date: 2016-04-01Availability and more information from Catalyst... -
Chicago Manual of Style (17th Edition)Call Number: Ready Ref Z253 .U69 2017ISBN: 9780226287058Publication Date: 2017-09-05Availability and more information from Catalyst... -
Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA) 6th EditionCall Number: Ready REF BF76.7 .P83Availability and more information from Catalyst...
The official APA citation style guide. Good online help can also be found at the Purdue OWL site and at APAstyle.org. -
Research and Documentation in the Electronic Age by Call Number: ZA4375 .H327 2010ISBN: 9780312566722Publication Date: 2010-04-26Availability and more information from Catalyst...
Other Style Guides
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The bluebook : a uniform system of citationCall Number: Ready Ref KF245 .B58 2015ISBN: 9780692400197Publication Date: 2015Availability and more information from Catalyst...
This is the style guide used for law and legal studies. You can typically use Chicago for law, but the Bluebook has myriad examples of particular legal sources, including statutes, court cases, and IGO documents. Quick Style Guide and Table 2 (Foreign Jurisdictions) is available online.
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AAA Style GuideThe style manual for the American Anthropological Association (if it doesn't load in your browser, update your reader or just download the file and then open).
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American Sociological Association Style Guide (5th ed.) by Call Number: REF HM73 .A547 2014ISBN: 9780912764214Publication Date: 2014Availability and more information from Catalyst...
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APSA Style Manual for Political Science by Call Number: JA86 .A52 2006 and OnlineISBN: 9781878147622Publication Date: 2006Availability and more information from Catalyst...
The style manual for the American Political Science Association.
Saving What You Find Online
Nothing's worse than copying down a URL incorrectly, or putting a bunch of web sites into one browser's bookmarks and then moving to another computer. These tools help solve these problems.
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DiigoA free bookmarking, reading, and annotating tool that lets you easily save what you find, tag it, and describe it. Diigo has powerful outlining tools that integrate your bookmarks into your outline. Save web articles, PDFs, images, and more.
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EvernoteSave entire web pages or just pieces of them, type in your own notes, search through everything, create categories, and have access from your computer or your mobile device.
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Zotero
Save, categorize, and cite everything from scholarship to YouTube videos. Our guide has instructions for using Zotero with lab computers and for getting the most storage space possible.
