Updated April 22, 2007

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Citation Builders
APA Wizard
http://www.stylewizard.com/apa5/apawiz.html
Application designed to help you create an APA (5th ed.) citation. It will take you through the steps for the most common types of cited works. Includes Quick Check and Full Wizard options. (An educational project of EB Communications) Note: the MLA Wizard link on this site has been "temporarily" unavailable since 2002 ;)
BibBuilder (Free MLA-Style Bibliography Builder)
http://jerz.setonhill.edu:80/writing/academic/bib_builder/index.html
From D.G. Jerz, Seton Hill University
Citation Builder from LOBO
http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/lobo2/citationbuilder/citationbuilder.php
Library Online Basic Orientation @ NCSU --Cite Your Sources lesson: The Citation Builder (Will help create citations for journal articles, books, web sites, and interviews--"will not perform magic")
Citation Builder from SourceAid
http://www.sourceaid.com/
Offers a citation builder for MLA, APA, Chicago, and Council of Science styles. Must pay for more features.
Citation Builder from UNC
http://www.lib.unc.edu/house/citationbuilder/
The Citation Builder illustrates how to cite some common resources in the APA, MLA and CBE/CSE citation styles.
Citation Creation Machine
http://www.studentabc.com:80/citation_machine
StudentABC builds APA and MLA style bibliographies. StudentABC makes preparing bibliographies easy by finding and formatting bibliographic information into a citation. Now offers combined URL search and citation builder
Citation Machine -- Landmark's "Son of Citation Machine"
http://citationmachine.net/

Citation Machine is an interactive web tool designed to assist high school, college, and university students, their teachers, and independent researchers in their effort to respect other people's intellectual properties. (A tool for MLA, ALA, and Chicago style)
DocsCite - Government Documents Service
http://www.asu.edu/lib/hayden/govdocs/docscite/docscite.htm
DocsCite is a step-by-step guide to putting government publication citations into proper style format. Use the drop-down menus to select the ALA or MLA template. From Arizona State University Libraries.
EasyBib: Free MLA Automatic Bibliography Composer
http://www.easybib.com/
Create MS Word-ready MLA-style bibliographies (must buy "Pro" version to do APA style and get more features)
KnightCite Citation Machine
http://www.calvin.edu/library/knightcite/index.php
A project of the Calvin College Hekman Library for APA, MLA, and Chicago styles.
NoodleBib Express (from NoodleTools)
http://www.noodletools.com/login.php
Just need one or two quick citations [in APA or MLA style]? No need to log in or subscribe [to NoodleTools full version]-- simply generate them in NoodleBib Express and copy and paste what you need into your document. Note: citations are not saved and cannot be exported to a word processor using this version of the tool.
Zotero (citation manager)
http://www.zotero.org:80/
"Zotero [zoh-TAIR-oh] is a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources. It lives right where you do your work — in the web browser itself."
Guides and Tutorials
APA Interactive Tutorial - Kevin Schoepp
http://www.kevinschoepp.ca/APAtutorial/contents.htm
An interactive tutorial giving the opportunity to learn about and practice using American Psychological Association (APA) referencing style. Each of the sections offer some APA guidelines and rules, and then lets you practice what you have learnt by doing the activities that follow. Excellent (even though last updated in 2003)!
APA Style Citation Guide
http://lib.indstate.edu/tools/tutorials/apa/
Tutorial from Indiana State University library, last updated 2004
APA-MLA-Chicago Style Citation Writing Tutorial
http://www.library.arizona.edu/help/tutorials/citation/writing.html
Guides and exercises from University of Arizona Library -- You can answer 6 citation questions for any of the 3 styles and get immediate feedback with correct answers.
Citation Guides
http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/cite.html
University of Michigan famed Government Docs site provides links to a variety of style manuals and guides--not too many more than we have here, with a lot of duplication.
Citing Sources - Skyline College Library
http://www.smccd.net/accounts/skylib/citing.html
MLA & APA format examples, Citation Style Guides for MLA, APA and Chicago formats, Automated Bibliography Formatting, How to Cite a Work within the Text of your paper, from Eric Brenner, Skyline College Library (updated 3/12/07)
Citing Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism
http://library.duke.edu/research/citing/
Easy to follow guide gives specific examples of each electronic format (APA, MLA, Chicago) - follow links to cite sources within the text of your paper, or to construct a list of works cited. (Duke University Libraries)
Columbia Guide to Online Style
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup/cgos2006/basic.html
The Columbia Guide to Online Style by Janice R. Walker and Todd Taylor (Columbia UP, 2006) presents a guide to locating, evaluating, translating, and using the elements of citation for electronically accessed sources in both a humanities style (i.e., MLA and Chicago) and a scientific style (APA and CBE). CGOS's unique element approach makes this a useful reference book for citing electronic sources regardless of the specific bibliographic style you may be required to use. The companion site provides some examples; more available in book.
Documenting Electronic Sources
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_docelectric.html
From OWL at Purdue, links on this handout take you to other resources on citing sources for MLA, APA, and other styles.
Guide to Citing International Organization Publications
http://www.libraries.iub.edu/index.php?pageId=2701
Guide from Indiana University
How to Cite (MLA, APA) from Indiana University
http://www.libraries.iub.edu/index.php?pageId=337
Links for citing electronic and print sources in each style, plus guides for citing government documents (U.S. and international)
How to Prepare an Annotated Bibliography
http://www.library.cornell.edu/olinuris/ref/research/skill28.htm
Excellent online guide from Cornell University Library
Karla's Guide to Citation Style Guides
http://bailiwick.lib.uiowa.edu/journalism/cite.html
Links to guides of all types compiled by Karla Tonella, University of Iowa (Journalism Resources). Last updated 2003.
MLA Formatting and Style Guide
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/557/01/
From OWL at Purdue
ONLINE! A Reference Guide to Using Internet Sources
http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/online/citex.html
Excellent guide from Bedford-St. Martin's Press for MLA, APA, Chicago, CBE and other styles.
Oops, I Plagiarized
http://unitproj.library.ucla.edu/col/bruinsuccess/03/01.cfm
This is a lighthearted or entertaining citation guide from UCLA (there are also sections on copyright and plagiarism).
Page Freshness Bookmarklet
http://www.bookmarklets.com/tools/frames.phtml#pgfrshfrm
Gives the date of last modification for every page in the set of frames. Servers which aren't configured to accurately reflect he last modified date may return values which are obviously impossible (e.g. - Jan 2, 1970). [Put bookmarklet in Favorites, then just click it when you are on a web page to get date.]
Uncle Sam -- Citing Government Publications
http://exlibris.memphis.edu/resource/unclesam/citeweb.html
University of Memphis Libraries guide to citing government publications