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Sharon Clayton
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Lauinger Library
For research consultations or reference questions, please email me.
For research consultations or reference questions, please email me.
202-687-7467
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Citation Formatting Help
Use these resources to get help Formatting Citations.
If the citation style you need to use is not covered by one of these tools, please email the Mathematics & Statistics Librarian for Assistance
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Purdue OWLUse for APA & MLA Style.
Purdue's OWL (Online Writing Lab)is recommended as a guide to MLA, APA. It also provides advice on research, writing, document formatting, and avoiding plagiarism. -
How To Cite Data (MSU Library)A concise page with helpful tips on citing your data and examples from three official style guides (APA, MLA, and Chicago). Includes information about how to cite tables, datasets, and citing within text. From Michigan State University Libraries.
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Chicago Manual of Style Online This link opens in a new windowAccess the Full Chiacgo Manual of Style Here.
Citation Management Systems
These tools allow you to gather citations and PDFs in one place and then quickly create a bibliography. You have to start using them well before your paper is due, however.
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How to Guide for ZoteroThis is the Library's Guide to using Zotero
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Zotero LinkZotero is a free tool designed to help you gather, manage and share information about books, articles, web pages and other digital objects that you are using in your research, and to generate citations and bibliographies. Zotero is a Mozilla browser plugin. You can choose to gather your data on your hard drive (if you are working mainly from one computer), or on a flash drive or a network (if you frequently access your data at multiple workstations).
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RefWorks This link opens in a new windowRefWorks is an online research management, writing, and collaboration tool designed to help researchers gather, manage, store, and share information and generate citations and bibliographies.
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Endnote Guide via Clarivate Web of ScienceEndNote is a Citation Manager, Subscribed for you by Georgetown. It is accessed through Clarivate's Web of Science. This link takes you to instructions for accessing it.
