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First-Year Seminar Template: Cite Sources

Chicago Style Guides

Chicago Manual of Style Online, 17th edition
NUsearch lists as 16th ed. but it is the 17th ed.
CMOS Formatting and Style Guide
Purdue OWL

MLA Style Guides

MLA Formatting and Style Guide
From Purdue OWL,
MLA Style Center
KnightCite Citation Service
Create a citation in MLA format on the fly. A project of Calvin College's Hekman Library.

APA Style Guides

Short Video: Examining Citations (What is a citation and why is it important)

Citation Management Software

Citation Management Software: EndNote, Zotero, Mendeley. All of these programs can:

store references in one place
export citations directly from databases
automatically format bibliographies and citations in MLA, APA, Chicago Manual of Style, or thousands of other styles
keep reading notes linked to sources
insert citations directly into Word
attach files to your references and more!

Help with Citation Management: Citation Workshops this Quarter

Workshops

-How to use EndNote

-How to use Zotero

You can register for quarterly workshops from the Library Events page.

If you have any questions, please contact the library's bibliographic support team.

How to Generate Citations in Research Databases

An example from NUsearch, the NU Library’s search tool:

2. An example from a research database, Sociological Abstracts :