Work with a librarian to get help with creating, formatting, and checking your citations! A librarian would be happy to work with you in-person, but printed, one-page citation guides are also available in the Collaboration Area for you to use whenever you need them! They are located on the table next to the printer.
The following handouts, created by CSCC librarians, may be downloaded and printed for your personal use.
Our citation guides offer comprehensive, in-depth information for creating common citations.
Several handbooks will familiarize you with the most common styles, but these following handbooks set the golden standard:
Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association
MLA Handbook
The Chicago Manual of Style
A citation generator is a tool that exists to assist you with the creation of a bibliographic citation. Many credible databases include citations generators for the sources that you find within them! Some of these databases include the family of EBSCO Databases, like Academic Search Complete, and Google Scholar. When using these databases, the citation generation button may take on differing appearances. Often, the button will appear as the word "cite" or as a quotation mark ("). If you are having difficulty finding the citation button, ask a librarian for help!
There are also many online citation generators available. Below are just a few popular examples! Explore each to find the one best suited for your purposes:
2. BibMe
3. EasyBib
4. Zotero
No matter which generator you use, always be sure to double check your citations! Generators, while useful, do not work perfectly.
