Physical Sciences: Citation

What is a citation? A citation....

• describes a book, journal article, website, or other published item
• gives credit to the originator of an idea, thus preventing plagiarism
• enables the reader to retrieve the item you refer to
• includes the author, title, source (publisher and place of publication or URL), and date

Plagiarism Online Tutorial

The ProQuest RefWorks is a premier reference management service that supports the needs of students, faculty and librarians. With a refined user experience, full-text management, collaboration and other features you’d expect from a reference management solution, RefWorks enables students and faculty to have a more efficient and reliable process for producing the best research papers and grants. Libraries are able to offer this powerful service and have full administrative controls and analytics that provide a consistent source of patron and content usage.

EndNote x9 Online Tutorials (Requires Adobe Flash Player)

EndNote is reference management software with features to --

• Keep all your references and reference-related materials in a searchable personal library.
• Synchronize your references between up to three of your personal computers, an online library, and your iPad, through EndNote sync. (You must be the owner and user of all three computers.)
• Share your references with collaborators through EndNote sync.
• Use your references in word-processing documents to create formatted citations and bibliographies or independent reference lists.

Landmarks Citation Machine: Choose the appropriate style (APA, MLA, etc.) and fill in the forms to create citations for any format.

OWL Purdue Online Writing offers APA, MLA formatting and style guide.

Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share your research sources. It lives right where you do your work—in the web browser itself.