Research Guides: ENGL 249: Introduction to Asian American Literature: Citations

Citation Manuals and Guides

MLA Formatting and Style Guide (Purdue OWL)
The Online Writing Lab at Purdue provides an overview along with helpful examples.
MLA Handbook
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This is the ninth edition of the MLA Handbook published in 2021. Provides detailed examples showing how to treat different types of sources in notes and bibliography.
Chicago Manual of Style Documentary Note System (Williams College)
This page explains the system using separate bibliographic notes for citations rather than including them in the text as in often done in science papers.
Chicago-Style Citation Quick Guide

Citation Manager

The Tri-College Libraries recommend Zotero, a free online app that can format your bibliography, keep your citations organized, and even save your articles in the cloud so you can access them later from the library, home, or a café.

Zotero: A Citation Tool

A Tri-college guide to installing and using Zotero to save your references and then cite them in footnotes and the computer-generated bibliography.

Zotero Tutorial

See Zotero in action with librarian Brie Gettleson. Walk through important processes including creating folders, saving citations from the Tripod catalog and other sites, tagging saved journal articles by keywords, and creating bibliographies and footnotes.