LibGuides: PHI 501: Citations and citation management

Citation formatting and management tools

Option 1: Learn the style the best you can and use guides to double check

Chicago Manual of Style Online This link opens in a new window
This is the only major style that let's the library buy the guide as an ebook. Covers both notes-bibliography and author-date systems.

Turabian quick guide
Using Turabian-- here is a quick guide for that.
APA (Purdue OWL)
Need APA? Every single librarian I know uses the Purdue OWL site.

Option 2: Use citation generators

You still need to double check citations made through these methods.

Category 1--- free options like Citation Machine and Easy Bib can be found on our main library citation help page.
Category 2-- most library databases will also generate citations in a variety of styles. Here is what it looks like in Library Search and all the databases we get from EBSCO.

Option 3: Use a citation management tool

There are a number of different citation management tools out there, including Zotero, Mendelay, EndNote, and RefWorks. Some are free, others cost money. This page from Penn State Libraries does a great head-to-head comparison.

WCU Libraries have access to Endnote Web. We have a guide to using it.