Make use of Online Writing Lab at Purdue University guides will help you create your bibliography, as well as provide instructions for incorporating in-text citations, quotes, writing annotated bibliographies and much more!
MLA Formatting and Style Guide (OWL PURDUE ONLINE)
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The Modern Language Association, the authority on research and writing, takes a fresh look at documenting sources in the eighth edition of the MLA Handbook. Works are published today in a dizzying range of formats. A book, for example, may be read in print, online, or as an e-book--or perhaps listened to in an audio version. On the Web, modes of publication are regularly invented, combined, and modified. Previous editions of the MLA Handbook provided separate instructions for each format, and additional instructions were required for new formats. In this groundbreaking new edition of its best-selling handbook, the MLA recommends instead one universal set of guidelines, which writers can apply to any type of source. Shorter and redesigned for easy use, the eighth edition of the MLA Handbook guides writers through the principles behind evaluating sources for their research. It then shows them how to cite sources in their writing and create useful entries for the works-cited list. More than just a new edition, this is a new MLA style.
Most library databases contain a link to generate a citation for articles you select such as "Cite" or "Citation" or "Cite This." These links, if clicked, will generate a citation for articles you select from the database in the format that you specify APA, MLA or Chicago-Turabian. NOTE: Always double check the citations the databases generate in your MLA, APA or Chicago-Turabian Handbook - or in O.W.L. Purdue via the library's "How to Cite" link.
For example, in the EBSCOHost databases, look for the "Cite" icon. This can be found under "Tools" to the right of each article record:
Identify which citation style you need to use; APA, MLA or Chicago. Always double-check the citation generated by the databases in your handbook or go to O.W.L. Purdue Writing Lab.
These tools build citations from information that you enter about the resource. Beware that sometimes the citations need fixing, so always double-check their accuracy in one of the manuals.
KnightCite from Calvin College
Citation Builder from North Carolina State University
Son of a Citation Machine from The Landmark Project
EasyBib This online source is available at Reedley College