Doing Your Research From Home: Citing Your Sources
This Library Guide will give you all the basics needed to successfully do your research from home.
Although many of the library's databases now offer automatic citation formatting, be aware that since the citations are created by machines, there may be errors. Unless you are familiar with the style manual your professor wants you to use, you won't be able to find and correct those errors.
CITATION STYLES
These three Library Guides pull together all the available online help from the Pfau Library and also provide links to additional trusted resources.
ADDITIONAL HELP
- Is it an Article, a Book, or a Chapter in a Book? Identifying CitationsNo matter what style manual you are following (APA, MLA, etc.), you will need to learn how to recognize the three basic types of citations.
- Plagiarism & the Research PaperGuidelines for giving credit where credit is due regardless of the style manual you are using.
- ZoteroZotero is a free extension for your web browser that acts as a citation management system. You can save, organize, format your citations in your paper, and more.
