LibGuides: Information Skills: Citation Help and Management

Documentation

When doing research writing, the sources used need to be documented. The process for doing this is "creating citations" or "citing".
Below are some resources to assist with the creation of both in-text citations and the bibliography.

Citing Medicine by Karen Patrias; Dan Wendling (ed.)
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Continuously updated since 2007, this open access book from the National Library of Medicine provides assistance to authors in compiling lists of references for their publications.

Owl at Perdue - Research and Citation Resources by Perdue Writing Lab
Publication Date: Current
Information on AMA formatting and citation use! Includes and AMA citation generator

CITATION MANAGERS

Zotero - A free online reference manager designed to store, manage, and cite bibliographic references such as books and articles.
Mendeley - Mendeley requires users to create an account on its web site, but the use of the citation manager remains free thereafter. Institutional, or premium, accounts also exist providing extra storage space to their users
JabRef - An open-source, cross-platform citation and reference management software available free of charge