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Citing Sources

What Is a Citation?

What is a Citation?

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Online Citation Builders

Bibliographic Managers

A Bibliographic Manager is a software package designed for scholars and authors to use for recording and utilising bibliographic citations (references). Once a citation has been recorded, it can be used time and again in generating bibliographies or reference lists.  Such as lists of references in scholarly books, articles and essays.  The bibliographic managers listed below are all web based and require you to create online accounts so that you can access your citation  lists from any computer.

Adelphi University subscribes to a more sophisticated bibliographic manager, RefWorks, with free accounts for students, staff, and faculty. For those unfamiliar with using bibliographic managers, we suggest you get started first with KnightCite or another citation manager listed below. Decide which one works for you. Remember, enter your sources as you find them. It is the worst practice to compile your references after your paper is complete!

Citing Government Sources