Creating Bibliographic Citations

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Citing Electronic Sources (from the Write Source 2000 website)

MLA style: http://www.thewritesource.com/mla.htm

The middle-school and high-school handbooks include basic information about citing electronic sources in MLA and APA style. Because the style for electronic sources is constantly evolving, you’ll want to check out these pages for the latest information.

 

 

EasyBib (Creates citations with the proper formatting)

 http://www.easybib.com/

Type in the information you know about your sources, Easybib can properly format, alphabetize, and print your citation list. It will place colons and periods where they belong and decide when and where to underline or put quotation marks. You can save your list to a RTF file that will open in any word processing program. Then you can also run a spellcheck, type in a heading....

Easybib.com adheres to the 6th Edition of MLA Handbook for Writers and Researchers, and the 5th edition of the APA Publication Manual.

 

 

Noodle Tools http://www.noodletools.com/ 

NoodleBib 6 http://www.noodletools.com/noodlebib/go.ph
A comprehensive and accurate MLA and APA-style bibliography composer on the Web. Advanced version for middle/high school through graduate-level research. Requires a subscription and a small fee.

NoodleBib MLA Starter:  http://www.noodletools.com/noodlebib/starter.php 
Free, simplified MLA version of NoodleBib for our youngest scholars (Designed for Grades 1-5, ESL). Full bibliography creation, limited citation types.

NoodleBib Express http://www.noodletools.com/noodlebib/express.php
Individual MLA or APA citations. You can do one at a time and copy and paste them into a word processing file. All citation types from NoodleBib 6 are available, but no login or subscription is required.

 

 

 

Citation Machine http://citationmachine.net/ 
Citation Machine is an interactive web tool designed to assist high school, college, and university students, their teachers, and independent researchers in their effort to respect other people's intellectual properties. To use Citation Machine, simply...

  1. Click the citation format you need and then the type of resource you wish to cite,

  2. Complete the Web form that appears with information from your source, and

  3. Click Make Citations to generate standard bibliographic and in-text citations.

 

 

Online! A Reference Guide to Using Internet Sources

http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/online/citex.html

Excerpted from a print book of the same title, these pages show bibliographic examples and detailed instructions for seven different online sources (including  instant message, database and e-mail) in four major styles: MLA, American Psychological Association (APA), Chicago and Council of Biology Editors (CBE.) 

 

 

Basic Columbia Guide to Online Style (CGOS)

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup/cgos/idx_basic.html
The Elements of Citation; Documenting Sources in the Text; Preparing the Bibliographic Material

 

 


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