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New York State History: Citation Help

This guide will cover New York State History resources.

Citation Generators

BibMe
BibMe is an online writing center you can use to check a paper for plagiarism, grammar issues, and help you create citations.
Scribbr Citation Generator
ZoteroBib
ZoteroBib helps you create a citation list without creating an account or downloading any software. If you need to reuse sources across projects or build a resource library, try Zotero or another citation management application instead.

Citation Management

Citation Managers allow you to:

Collect articles, books, web pages for use in research
Create bibliographies to export to a research document

Some more advanced citation management tools allow you to:

Link to sources
Store sources
Insert in-text citations and bibliography entries into a word processor

Citation Manager Examples:

Zotero Free, open-source Firefox browser add-on or standalone Store PDFs Highlight text and take notes Tag records MS Word plug-in
Mendeley Free Must be installed on computer Manage PDFs / Extract citation info from PDFs See what others are reading and citing

Citation Guides

APA Citation Guide
Everything you ever wanted to know about APA style including reference page entry templates and samples, in-text citation rules, and step-by-step formatting guidelines.
MLA Citation Guide
Chicago Citation Guide
This guide has footnote and bibliography citation examples for some of the most frequently cited sources.

Helpful Web Resources & Citation Builders

OWL Purdue
The Online Writing Lab (OWL) at Purdue University houses writing resources and instructional material. It's a great place to go to look up standard writing practices and for tricky citation situations.
Trinity College Library: Cite Source
Learn how to document information in your field of research and check citation examples for information formats in a variety of citation styles

Citation Styles

Please see the MVCC Libraries "How-To: Cite Sources" guide for more information:

Cite Sources
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