NYS Teachers Summer Institute: Slow Food/Fast Food: Citation Management

Citation management programs allow you to gather and organize citations from websites and databases.  They also help you format your papers by inserting and formatting in-text citations and bibliographies in a variety of styles.

The two best know free, web-based citation are Zotero and Mendeley.  They're very similar, so try them both  if you're not sure which to try.

Cornell Library has a comparison chart for many programs, including these two.

MLA Citation Style

MLA Citation Style (Cornell University Library)
Answers to some of the most frequently asked questions about MLA citation style.

MLA Style (MLA's web site)
Provides some FAQ's; however, this site does not provide the full style manual online.

MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers (6th ed.)
Olin and Uris Libraries Z253 .M68 2003 (located at the Reference Desks) APA Citation Style

APA Citation Style

APA Citation Style (Cornell University Library)
Answers to some of the most frequently asked questions about APA citation style.

APA Reference Examples for Electronic Source Materials (Excerpted from the 5th edition of the Publication Manual)