O'Malley Library: Critical Race & Ethnic Studies: Citations

APA Online

Purdue OWL APA Guide
Resources on in-text citation and the References page, as well as APA sample papers.
APA Style Guide
Tutorials, FAQs, and other resources to help you improve your writing, master APA Style, and learn the conventions of scholarly publishing.
CSUDH APA Citation Guide
This well-designed guide will let you select which kind of source you are citing and then explain how to cite it.
APA Zombie Game
A game created by the library at Hodges University to help you in learning APA Style
Research and Documentation (Diana Hacker & Barbara Fister)
This website suggests information sources for different disciplines, explains how to cite them in APA, Chicago, MLA and CSE, and provides example papers

MLA Online

Purdue OWL MLA Guide
Resources on in-text citation and the Works Cited page, as well as MLA sample papers.
CSUDH Citation Guide: MLA
This well-designed online guide lets you click on a dropdown menu to select what kind of source you are trying to cite and then explains how to cite it.
Research and Documentation (Diana Hacker & Barbara Fister)
This website suggests information sources for different disciplines, explains how to cite them in APA, Chicago, MLA and CSE, and provides example papers
The MLA Style Center
Contains an FAQ, guides and formatting guidance for using MLA style.

ASA Online

Purdue OWL: ASA Style
Purdue's guide to the ASA (American Sociological Association) Style used often in sociology papers
CSUDH Citation Guide: ASA
This well-designed online guide lets you click on a dropdown menu to select what kind of source you are trying to cite and then explains how to cite it.

ASA Basics

Examples of the most frequently used kinds of bibliographic citations in ASA: Books and Journal Articles. For other kinds of papers, electronic sources, or chapters within books, please see the ASA style guide referred to elsewhere on this page.

Reference Managers

Both of these reference managers are free, and both support ASA style.

Mendeley
A free reference manager and academic social network. Users can automatically generate bliographies, collaborate with other researchers online, import papers from other research software, find relevant papers, access papers from anywhere online, and read papers on the go with iPhone app.
Zotero
Zotero is a free, open source utility that works in your browser to help users collect, manage and cite sources. It was developed at George Mason University. Highly recommended.

Citation Generators

None of the free citation generators have ASA style, but you can use APA style and make the necessary changes.

BibMe
BibMe is a free citation generator developed at Carnegie Mellon University that produces citations and bibliographies in APA, MLA, Chicago and Turabian styles. It has some features not found in other free citation generators, such as autofill and the ability to switch between citation styles.
Citation Machine
Citation Machine is a free site that automatically produces MLA, APA, Turabian or Chicago style citations for a variety of sources (but not bibliographies). Users can copy and paste citations into Word. It was developed by David Warlick, an educator.
KnightCite
KnightCite is a free site that automatically produce MLA, APA, or Chicago style citations for 25 types of sources.
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