LibGuides: Anthropology: Citing and Writing

Cultural Studies, Literary Analysis, and Writing Librarian

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Zotero

Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share research. It helps you track all your sources build bibliographies in minutes! It's also collaborative, so if you're working on a project with multiple people you can all save your sources in one place!

Just download the software to your computer and an extension for your browser
Check out Zotero's extensive documentation to see how it works!
Also, check out our guide on citation management for more information and options!

Zotero Tutorials

This LibGuide from Ohio University has great video tutorials on using Zotero.

How to cite your sources

The American Anthropological Association (AAA) now uses to the current edition of the Chicago Manual of Style author-date style as its citation and style guide for publications.

The Quick Guide will help get you started with basic publication types.
You can find the full-text of the style guide in print or online.

Here are some other citation resources:

Citation Management Software
This is a Barnard Library guide to tools that help manage citations and build bibliographies, including Zotero, EndNote, and Mendeley.
Excelsior Online Writing Lab (OWL)
OWL has lots of general and subject-specific writing tips and techniques, along with research advice and detailed citation and formatting standards for the APA, MLA, and Chicago styles.
Quick Guide to Data Citation
This is a handy resource from the International Association for Social Science Information Services Technology (IASSIST).

Writing and research methods

The Craft of Research by Wayne C. Booth; Gregory G. Colomb; Joseph M. Williams; Joseph Bizup; William T. FitzGerald
ISBN: 9780226239569
Publication Date: 2016-10-19
This is a great book to refer to at any stage in the research process.

Conducting Primary Research
Conducting Primary Research gives an overview of various primary research methods -- surveys, interviews, observations, and ethnographies -- and the ethics involved with collecting data.
Research Methods in Anthropology: Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches
Research Methods in Anthropology: Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches covers concepts and practices in anthropology and related social sciences.

SAGE Research Methods Core
SAGE Research Methods provides a comprehensive picture of research methods (quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods) across the social and behavioral sciences. It includes more than 100,000 pages of SAGE book and reference material on research methods as well as selected material from SAGE journals.

Salsa Dancing into the Social Sciences: Research in an Age of Info-Glut by Kristin Luker
ISBN: 9780674031579
Publication Date: 2008-10-31

A Student's Guide to Reading and Writing in Social Anthropology (PDF file)
A Student's Guide to Reading and Writing in Social Anthropology is a helpful resource from the Harvard University Department of Anthropology.