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The Owl at Perdue MLA 2009 Formatting and Style Guide
Recommended by the SPC English department, this site contains the latest updates on the MLA style, in addition to information on APA and Chicago styles and general instruction for college-level research and writing.

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Citation Formatting Tools

RefWorks is an online research management, writing and collaboration tool that is designed to help you easily gather, manage, store and share all types of information as well as generate citations and bibliographies. First, each user needs to create a username and password. An optional plugin can also be downloaded to Microsoft Word. Use this tutorial to help you get started.

All current students, staff and faculty need to register for individual access to RefWorks on-campus. For remote access, click "Continue to this website (not recommend)" to process when you have a browser warning page.

Zotero is a free Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources. Zotero requires Firefox version 3.0 and also includes an optional plug-in that works with Microsoft Word or Open Office to generate citations and bibliographies. View the Zotero quick start guide for more information.

Citing a document retrieved from a subscribed research database

from a Proquest database (ABI/Inform, Historical New York Times, etc. )
You'll see the words Cite this above the title of your document. When you click Cite this, it will open a window with a formatted citation you can include in a bibliography. Use the dropdown menu to select the desired citation format (APA, MLA, etc.). Copy and paste the citation into your document.

from an EBSCO database (Academic Search Premier, Business Search Premier, CINAHL, etc.)
Look for an icon that looks like a yellow sheet of paper above the title of your document.
Click the yellow page and follow the directions above for Proquest.

For more detailed instructions, view this demo: How to use auto-cite in Ebsco Databases

Citing in Microsoft Word 2007

Microsoft Word 2007 now features a References Ribbon which enables you to add citations to documents, insert footnotes, and generate bibliographies in all major styles (MLA, APA, Chicago, Turabian).

For more information, view this brief tutorial from Florida Gulf Coast University: References and Citations in MS Word 2007.

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