Citation & Writing Guide: Citing Sources

One of the most widely used citation websites, created by Purdue University. This site includes general research tips, as well as formatting, citation, and style overviews.

DocsCite is a step-by-step guide to putting government publication citations into proper style format.

Examples of how to cite various types of government publications. Created by IU - Bloomington.

For information regarding the consequences of plagiarism, view the UWT Student Code of Conduct.

A how-to website from UCLA that covers issues of plagiarism, academic honesty, and intellectual property.

Not sure which citation management system to choose? Take a look at this guide to the commonly used citation - or reference - management systems available to the UW Tacoma community.

RefWorks is a web-based personal citation databases and bibliography creators that allow you to import, store, and share your research citations and automatically format your bibliographies into whatever style you need (APA, MLA, Chicago, and many more).
PLEASE NOTE: We highly recommend that you migrate your RefWorks account to RefWorks 3.0, as version 2.0 is experiencing some problems and will eventually be phased out.

Save everything from online articles to webpages. Then you can categorize them and export bibliographies formatted in the major citation styles.

A free reference manager and academic social network that can help you organize your research and collaborate with others.

Endnote Web allows users to find, store, and share references, in addition to created bibliographies. (Endnote Web offers limited services, as compared to Endnote.)

Easy online citation generator, covering 59 formats. Creating citations is only free for MLA style. However, in the EasyBib add-on for Google Docs, MLA, APA, and Chicago N&B are included for free.

Free web-based citation builder from Calvin College's Hekman Library; produces citations in MLA, APA and Chicago N&B styles.

This web form builds citations in 18 different styles for web sites, books, and newspaper, magazine, and journal articles

Generates citations in MLA, APA, Chicago, and Turabian for 11 source types.