Great tool for citing works and formatting papers

How would you like a tool that automatically formats your citations and your paper as you write it? EndNote Web is such a tool. This web-based tool is a place to collect citations from articles, books, magazine, etc. and make personal notes. You may take this collection and export a bibliography in your prefered citation style (e.g. MLA, APA, CBE, Chicago).

The MS Word plugin, Cite While You Write, will format your paper as you write. Login to EndNote Web, select your preferred citation style, and start writing. When you need to cite a work, select it from your EndNote Web library and the work is cited in-text and place automatically in the bibliography. If you need to change the style, you do not need to rewrite the paper, just pick the new style and the paper and bibliography will be reformatted automatically. This plugin is already loaded on the computers on the first floor of the library.

MORE information on the library citation page.

Citation tool in Facebook

OCLC WorldCat has created CiteMe and WorldCat, a Facebook Applications. The CiteMe app is useful for citing physical items (books, videos, etc.) only. Select the CiteMe application from your apps list and search for the book title you want to cite. Once you find the book you want to cite, select the citation style (APA, MLA, Harvard, Chicago or Turabian). The WorldCat app does the same thing, but provides a bit more information about the title. For citing via the WorldCat app, select Format a Citation once you found the item you want to cite. The app is a lite version of WorldCat, which provides citation, library location and other information about each title.

Note: Always manually check the citation after using any automated citation tool. Facebook also has an article citation app, but it is not very good.