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Citation Guide: About This Guide
A guide to citing your sources
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What is Plagiarism?
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Purdue Owl
We highly recommend this website! It's a great overview of citation styles, with examples included.
Citation Machine
Citation Machine will help you create citations in APA, MLA, Chicago, or Turabian styles. Remember to double-check your results!
Research & Documentation Online
This website includes guidelines and annotated lists of print and online resources for findings and documenting sources in a variety of different fields.
EndNote
Store research and format bibliographies with the free, basic version.
KnightCite
KnightCite is an online citation generator service provided by the Hekman Library of Calvin College.
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