Diana Hacker’s A Pocket Style Manual features three popular formats: MLA, APA, and Chicago. Of the three listed, Chicago is most common for history and the humanities. For special instructions on managing information and avoiding plagiarism, see Hacker’s A Pocket Style Manual, Seventh Edition, pages 102-105. You can, of course, always consult The Chicago Manual of Style, 16th ed (located at the Reference Desk). For Internet sources, see Chapter 17. The Reference Faculty has created handouts on the three popular styles.
- Persistent Links
- "Persistent Links" connect users directly to a library database or article by clicking a link embedded in a webpage. Persistent Links can be useful when creating syllabi, online bibliographies and other research and information tools.
- TinyURL
- Shorten that long URL into a Tiny URL. Useful for making citations to online sources.
- Zotero
- Zotero [zoh-TAIR-oh] is a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, cite, and share your research sources. It lives right where you do your work—in the web browser itself. [from the Zotero homepage]
