Help at Northwestern
Help on the web
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MLA Citation StyleOffers some FAQs about MLA citation style; though not the complete style guide.
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Purdue University Online Writing Lab (OWL)Helpful guides on writing, citation, avoiding plagiarism, and more.
Online citation managers
Use the following free, web-based citation managers to help you manage and properly cite the sources you use in your writing projects.
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ZoteroZotero [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.
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EasybibEasybib is a free automatic bibliography and citation maker. It creates a "Works Cited" reference instantly!
Help with paper writing
The following style guides are available at the Reference desk of the Berntsen Library.
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MLA Handbook by The Modern Language Association, the authority on research and writing, takes a fresh look at documenting sources in the eighth edition of the MLA Handbook. Works are published today in a dizzying range of formats. A book, for example, may be read in print, online, or as an e-book--or perhaps listened to in an audio version. On the Web, modes of publication are regularly invented, combined, and modified. Previous editions of the MLA Handbook provided separate instructions for each format, and additional instructions were required for new formats. In this groundbreaking new edition of its best-selling handbook, the MLA recommends instead one universal set of guidelines, which writers can apply to any type of source. Shorter and redesigned for easy use, the eighth edition of the MLA Handbook guides writers through the principles behind evaluating sources for their research. It then shows them how to cite sources in their writing and create useful entries for the works-cited list. More than just a new edition, this is a new MLA style.Call Number: Reference Desk 808.023 M699 2009ISBN: 1603292624Publication Date: 2016-04-01
