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Citations

Need help with APA Citation Style guidelines?  Check out these two great resources:

Citation Styles Guide - Created by ASU Librarians to provide you with information on when to cite a source and citation style specifics.

OWL at Purdue - An APA formatting and Style Guide from the writing lab at Purdue University. 

Managing Your Research

Using citation management software can help you organize your research, create bibliographies, and make sure you never again lose that great article you found. There are many great options out there - here are the best ones to consider:

Mendeley - desktop manager and web interface. Users can annotate PDFs and search the social network component of mendeley for more articles. 

Zotero - Firefox users: Here's a free tool you can use to manage your citations. Use Word Processor Integration plug ins for Word and Open Office for in text citations and bibliography formatting.

Annotated Bibliography

So what is a annotated bibliography? "... is a list of citations to books, articles, and documents. Each citation is followed by a brief (usually about 150 words) descriptive and evaluative paragraph, the annotation. The purpose of the annotation is to inform the reader of the relevance, accuracy, and quality of the sources cited.” (Definition from Cornell University Library)

To write a good annotated bibliography you need to be:

  • Concise: Go to the point of what is the book/article about, in few words, summarize.
  • Evaluative: Determine who is the author, what is his/her expertise in the topic, how reliable is the information
  • Critical: Reflect on what is the strength and weakness of the work, what is missing, etc.
  • Comparative: how each piece review compares to other similar works

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