JPST 280: Active Nonviolence: Citing Sources and Using Zotero

Helpful citation guides:
Purdue Online Writing Lab: MLA formatiing & Style Guide

Purdue Online Writing Lab: APA formatting & Style Guide

Citation Managers are applications or websites that store and organize source information. This means that a researcher using a citation manager can quickly find the sources they put into the manager and can easily create bibliographies in a variety of citation styles and even create accurate internal citations while writing research papers. 

Citation Managers can help you: 

• Cite in all major citation styles, with some specialized or custom styles
• Directly import from databases and the web
• Build bibliographies with a single click 
• Create in-text citations by using the "cite while you write" integrations
• May allow PDF attaching and annotating 
• Allow you to share libraries or folders of citations with other researchers

Zotero is an easy to use, free, open-source citation management system that is available for Firefox and Chrome.  

• Any UST Academic Support llibrarian can assist with installation and use.
• A Quick Start Guide is available.
• It works well with both websites and library databases.
• You can download a plugin that connects Zotero to word and allows accurate in text citations.
• Groups can share their citations.
• The cloud version syncs to the desktop version.
• Additional file storage is available for purchase (300 MG for free).

Would you like some expert assistance with writing and editing your paper? 

Check out the resources available from the Writing Center.