Introduction

In Brief: Research Topic

Step 1: Search Terms

Step 2: Search Strategy

In Brief: Primary & Secondary Sources

Step 3: Finding Books

Step 4: Finding Articles

Step 5: Locating Sources

Step 6: Evaluating Sources

Step 7: Using Information Effectively

Citation Guides:

Many research databases will generate your citations for you. Be careful, they make mistakes. So it is still important for you to know how to create your citations.

APA Style:

* Using APA Format

* APA Style for Electronic Resources

* Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (Suzzallo Reference, Ready Reference BF76.7 .P82 2001)

Chicago Style:

* Chicago Manual of Style Form Guide

* Chicago Manual of Style (Suzzallo Reference, Ready Reference Z253 .U69 1993)

* A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations by Kate Turabian (Suzzallo Reference, Ready Reference LB2369 .T8 1996)

MLA Style:

* Using MLA Format

* MLA Style Citations for World Wide Web Sources - choose MLA Style and then the FAQ

* MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing (Suzzallo Reference, Ready Reference PN147 .G444 1998)

Citation Style Guides for Internet and Electronic Sources

KnightCite

citation generator

DocsCite

government documents citation generator

RefWorks

RefWorks is a web-based personal citation database and bibliography creator that allows you to import, store, and share your research citations and automatically formats your bibliographies into whatever style you need (APA, MLA, Chicago, and many more).