LibGuides: Human Rights Studies: Citing and Writing

How to cite your sources

Chicago Manual of Style, 18th ed.
Chicago Manual of Style has full details on citing primary & archival material in Chicago style. You can also the style guide in print.
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.

MLA Handbook by The Modern Language Association of America
Call Number: LB2369 .M52 2016
ISBN: 9781603292627
Publication Date: 2016-04-01
Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association by American Psychological Association
Call Number: BF76.7 .P83 2010
ISBN: 9781433832154
Publication Date: 2019-10-01

Annotated Bibliographies - UNC Writing Center
This explains why annotated bibliographies are useful for researchers, provides an explanation of what constitutes an annotation, describes various types of annotations and styles for writing them, and offers multiple examples of annotated bibliographies in the MLA, APA, and CBE/CSE styles of citation.
Literature reviews - UNC Writing Center
This is a solid introduction to what literature reviews are and how to go about constructing one.

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.

Research log
Try using a research log to keep track of what you've searched and what you want to try next. You can copy this to your Google Drive and adjust it to suit your needs.

SAGE Research Methods Core
Sage Research Methods provides a comprehensive picture of research methods (quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods) across the social and behavioural 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.