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Citation Styles & Tools: Home
Quick help on citing sources and tools for storing and organizing sources.
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Starting Points / Top Resources
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MLA Style GuideMLA is the primary citation style used in the Humanities
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APA Style GuideAPA is primarily used in the Social Sciences, Education and Engineering
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Chicago Notes and Bibliography StyleUsed widely in history and political science; features footnotes or endnotes accompanied by a bibliography
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Chicago Author-Date StyleUses parenthetical in-text citations accompanied by a works cited or references page
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Citation Management SoftwareGuides for using Zotero, Mendeley, EndNote Basic and RefWorks to make saving and creating citations easy
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Citation Management AppointmentMake an appointment to meet one-on-one with a librarian and learn how to use a citation manager!
What the Citation Team CAN help with:
- We can help you identify what citation manager is best for your needs
- We can help you get set up using a citation manager
- We can help you troubleshoot citation tools problems
What the Citation Team CANNOT help with:
- We cannot check reference pages and bibliographies for correctness
- We are not experts in all citation styles
For more general questions about bibliographies, consider visiting the OWRC!