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AMST BC 2001: Third World Studies

Citation (& the Politics of Citation)

  • 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.
  • MLA Citiation Style: An overview that should help you better understand how to cite sources using MLA 9th edition, including how to format the Works Cited page and in-text citations.
  • Barnard's guide to Citation Management Software: An in depth guide developed by Barnard Librarians exploring the citation management tools Zotero, Endnote, and Mendely
  • Citation Practices Challenge
  • Cite Black Women.
  • Gender Balance Assessment Tool (GBAT)
  • The Importance of Citational Justice
  • Citational Politics - Civic Laboratory for Environmental Action Research (CLEAR)
  • Citational Politics - Pratt Institute Libraries

Unless specified by your professor or academic discipline, you have a choice when selecting a citation manager. Use the charts linked below to see an overview of the features and functionality of a few options.

Searching in Catalogs

CLIO Quicksearch

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CLIO is the library catalog for the Columbia Library System (including Barnard Library, but excluding Teachers College and some information from the Law Library). In CLIO you can find books and media materials, search for different kinds of databases, and find articles within those databases as well.

Search Techniques

Catalog search tips:

  • If you know exactly what book (journal, video, etc.) you are looking for, you can search by Title, Author, ISBN, etc.
  • To find items about a specific topic, first try a keyword search in All Fields.
  • Use "quotation marks" to search for an exact phrase: "The Thief and the Dogs".
  • Use * for truncation (to find variant spellings and endings of a word): parent* will find parent, parents, parental, parenthood, etc.; wom*n will find woman, women, womyn, etc.
  • For more complex search, use AND and OR (note that AND and OR must be in ALL CAPS for this to work correctly in CLIO):
    • AND finds records which have ALL the search terms you entered.
    • OR finds records which have one of the search terms you entered, as well as records which have more than one of the terms. OR finds MORE.
    • For more help with using AND and OR, check our guide to advanced/Boolean keyword searching.
  • Use parentheses ( ) to group terms:  Frankenstein* AND (parent* OR father*)

What is Zotero?

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Zotero is a free citation management program that helps you collect and organize your research information.

It can help you build personal library of source information from articles, books, documents, web pages, and more.  This personal library of sources can work with your word processing tool to format a paper in your choice of style.

  • Save citations from databases, web sites, and library catalogs
  • Manage, tag, and organize citations into collections
  • Cite sources as you write and create reference lists in a wide variety of styles (e.g., APA, MLA, Chicago, ASA, Vancouver, etc.)
  • Attach PDFs, images, web page snapshots, reading notes, and more to citations in your collection
  • Share Zotero libraries with others using Zotero groups 
  • Mark up PDFs and EPUBs with highlights, notes, and image annotations