MLA Citation Style
You will find information here on how to cite your sources properly using the MLA citation styles. Please keep in mind that these are suggestions on how to cite according to each style. Follow the guidelines set by your instructors and consult the style guide manuals for clarification.
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What the MLA citation style looks like, with typical Babson assignments used in examples
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Citation Management
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A platform that advises students on how to reference correctly across eight referencing styles and includes helpful articles for understanding the reasons and context for referencing.
Why use a Citation Manager?
If you are finding that you are needing to cite more than a handful of resources to support your project, consider using a citation management tool like Zotero or Mendeley to keep track of all of your bibliographic references.
Citation & Bibliographic Management Tools
Why Use Mendeley?
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You want to gather and organize a variety of references from the Web and online databases.
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Mendeley is an academic social network as well as a citation management platform.
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Mendeley has a very good integrated PDF viewer and can create citation records just from importing a PDF file. Mendeley.org has a very strong website and community platform.
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Mendeley is owned by the for-profit publishing company Elsevier and can be integrated with your Elsevier or Web of Science profile if you have one.
- Good for larger and long term projects and for networking with other researchers.
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*Pricing structure: Free up to 2 GB (about 700-800 articles) with additional storage available for purchase.
See Mendeley Guides for more information, search tips, & tutorials.
Why Use Zotero?
- It gathers citation records for non-PDF and PDF content. Zotero's single-click capture works with many databases and websites.
- You can also enable the retrieval of PDF metadata, which allows you to create citation records just from dragging a PDF into Zotero.
- Zotero is open source and cannot be acquired by a company.
- Good for smaller or shorter term projects or papers.
- *Pricing structure: Free up to 300 MB (about 100 articles) with additional storage available for purchase.
- See Zotero Support for more information, search tips, & tutorials.