LibGuides: HIST 3761: Childhood and Youth in African History: Citing and Writing

Citing Your Sources

Chicago Manual of Style Online
The Chicago Manual of Style Online is the venerable, time-tested guide to style, usage, and grammar in an accessible online format. It is the indispensable reference for writers, editors, proofreaders, indexers, copywriters, designers, and publishers, informing the editorial canon with sound, definitive advice.

MLA Style Center
Offers advice, citation style updates, examples of citations and papers in MLA style, and templates for constructing citations for a range of source types.
Quick Guide to Data Citation
This is a handy resource from the International Association for Social Science Information Services Technology (IASSIST).
Zotero
Zotero is a free, open source software that allows you to save and organize citations for books, articles, and other materials to your own personal library. Zotero can automatically save citations from catalogs and databases, or you can manually add information for special items.
ZoteroBib (ZBib)
Allows you to very quickly generate a citation from a source, either from its URL or ISBN or DOI, or through manually entering info in a template. Includes a special template for maps!