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JOURNALISM 190: BEYOND GOOGLE AND WIKIPEDIA (Professors Grefe and Richardson)

Finding and Evaluating Information Sources in the Digital Age -- Fall 2012
Tuesday, 12:20 - 1:15 (Reid 211)

Citation Styles

Unfortunately, there is no universally agreed-upon "style" for documenting the use of sources in research -- no single method for formatting footnotes, bibliographies, endnotes, in-text citations, etc.

Instead, there are more than a half-dozen, most of which are specialized for use in one or more subject areas.

The W&L University Library maintain a collection of resources on these styles:

Please note that most of these resources are online, but some of the most important volumes still are available only in printed form.

Write-N-Cite

WARNING: RefWorks will no longer be available to the W&L community after December 31, 2014, and will be replaced by Zotero. Please see the Zotero guide for information about migrating from RefWorks to Zotero.

Download Write-N-Cite

Write-N-Cite is a plug-in for Microsoft Word. It allows the user to insert in-text citations while typing a document in Word with just a mouse click. After the document is completed, the user simply uploads it to RefWorks to format it in one of a myriad of citation styles.

Tutorial for using Write-N-Cite (PDF)

Specific issues using Write-N-Cite

For help with this resource, please see Mary Abdoney.