Citation Help

Cite your sources!

Online Guides

The following sites will give you explanation and examples of how to cite sources and create a bibliography.

MLA Formatting and Style Guide
from the Purdue University Online Writing Lab (OWL).
This site is an excellent resource for citing different kinds of sources, creating a bibliography, and in-text citations.
MLA In-text citations
from Research and Documentation Online
This is an excellent explanation of in-text citations created by Diana Hacker and Barbara Fister.

Citation Machines and Tools

It is important to remember that citation machines often ask for more information that is required or available.

Bibme One of the cool things about this site is that it will find book and website information for you. You can then save your bibliography to an account, download an rtf file, or simply copy and paste your information.
Easy Bib
Another popular tool to create MLA citations.
Zotero A free tool you can download to organize your citations and bibliography.
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