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Citation Formatting Help
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American Chemical Society Citation Style - ACSACS Style is frequently used in the field of Chemistry. This Quick Guide helps you format citations according to this style.
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CSE Style - Quick GuideThe CSE, or Council of Science Editors, provides a quick guide to their style rules
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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.
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.
Notes:
- We recommend that you use EndNote, RefWorks, or Zotero, as these are robust and authoritative Citation Managers. We recommend that you not use things like BibEasy, BibMe, Cite This for Me, or Noodle Tools. The exception is if a professor or advisor requests that you use these tools.
- It's Easy to Switch - If you are using one of the recommended tools & a professor or group leader asks you to use another one, it is very easy to export your citations from one to a .RIS file - and then import them into another.
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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. Georgetown's subscription is to the version that comes through Web of Science. It is not identical to the stand alone version. It is accessed through Clarivate's Web of Science. This link takes you to instructions for accessing it.
Finding DOIs
Find DOIs with CrossRef - Use this to find if an article has a DOI or not. This is especially important for publication or grants. For Journal articles : Only assume there is no DOI if the publication is pre 2000.
To use CrossRef
- Open CrossRef at the link
- Choose the "Metadata Search" option
- Type/paste in the full reference of the article you have or as much of it as you have.
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CrossrefCrossref makes research outputs easy to find, cite, link, assess, and reuse. Can use to identify DOI (digital object identifiers).
