Saving, Organizing, and Formatting Citations
Handwritten notes are great (but hard to back up), and copy-pasted links are fine, but if you want something a little more searchable, re-usable, and less easily lost, here are some options for saving and organizing your research documents. Plus, these tools help automate the formatting of your citations for your paper. These are especially useful for students writing (or thinking about writing) comps.
Remember: Zotero and Endnote save a lot of time and typing, but you still need to check citations for accuracy and correct format yourself and will need to make plenty of edits by hand.
Zotero
- ZoteroSave everything from online journal articles to records for books to plain old web pages. Then you can categorize them and export them as bibliographies formatted in any of the major citation styles.
- Carleton's Zotero Guide
Our guide has instructions for using Zotero with lab computers and getting the most storage space possible.
EndNote
- EndNoteAvailable to Carleton people, this is a fully featured bibliographic management system. Import citations from catalogs and databases or type them in by hand, embed PDFs, search, sort, export as a bibliography in any one of hundreds of citation styles, and manage long papers with Cite While You Write.
- EndNote OnlineEndNote's online version has the great advantage of being accessible from anywhere that has an internet connection and of allowing you to share folders with collaborators.
NOTE: You'll need to create your own login and password. Be sure to use your Carleton email address.
Citation Style in Anthropology
The citation style for Anthropology is the Chicago Manual of Style (CMS). It is very complex, which can be confusing, but it is also comprehensive and provides guidance on most questions. Use the online guide to the CMS for detailed help.
- SOAN Department Citation GuideA helpful guide to citation from your department's web site.
- Chicago Manual of Style Online (17th Edition) This link opens in a new windowAn online version of the The Chicago Manual of Style. NOTE: Anthropologists use the Author-Date style (chapter 15), not the Notes and Bibliography style (chapter 14). Sometimes you need to look to the other style for more detailed description, then adapt it to fit Author-Date ordering and placement.
