Monday, July 23, 2012

Citation Generators : Your life just got a whole lot easier!

Do you need to produce a reference list for a presentation, paper, project, or a policy? There are a number of free tools on the web that make this often tedious process a whole lot easier! These tools make it so easy to credit information sources, there’s no reason not to do so!

PubMed Citation Matcher

AMA Citation Generator
Plug in as little as a PubMed ID, ISBN, or Amazon url for a book or journal and this handy tool spits out a properly formatted AMA citation.

Citation Machine
Free tool designed to assist in generating APA, MLA, and Chicago style citations (Turabian is still under development). Part of the Landmarks for Schools Web site.

KnightCite Citation Service
Easily and freely generate citations in MLA, APA, and Chicago style formats for many types of print and electronic resources. Project of Heckman Library, Calvin.

Additionally, many of our journal index citation databases allow formatting the search results in many different citation styles including AMA, APA, MLA, and others. This includes Cinahl and the Ebsco databases.

Questions or comments? Contact Your Librarians :
     Michele Matucheski (MMC) 3-0340
     or Margo Lambert (STE) 8-2325