Finding Articles

Style Manuals

• A collection of writing style manuals is available in the Steenbock Reference Collection on 2nd floor.
• They are shelved under call numbers beginning with ZZ.
• Ask at the desk for assistance.

Citing Sources

• Citing References in Your Paper (UW Madison Writing Center)
• Citing Sources Within Your Paper (Duke University Libraries)
• Internet Citation Guides - how to site Internet sources (from Memorial Library)
• Guide to Citing Maps and Atlases (including GIS) (UW Madison Map Llibrary)
• Citing Archival Materials (Georgia State Univ.)
• Columbia Guide to Online Style (Columbia University Press)

Formatting Bibliographies

• Most journal databases allow results to exported into bibliographic citation managers. This is a convenient way to organize your references and automate creating a bibliography.
  • Web-based citation managers
    • RefWorks help pages | RefWorks Login
      Export references from journal databases directly to your personal account. Allows you to cite references inside Word documents and generate bibliographies instantly in many different styles.
    • EndNote Web help pages
      Export references from ISI Thomson journal databases directly to your personal account. Works with EndNote desktop software.
  • Desktop/laptop citation managers
    • EndNote help pages
• Some library databases also have built-in tools to help format references for bibligraphies. For example, CQ Researcher, has a feature called CiteNow that formats references in several popular styles.

• Free 'fill in the form' citation builders
  • Citation Machine (APA, MLA)
  • Citation Builder (APA, MLA, CBE)