Research Guides: Medical Laboratory Science: Citations

Print Books

AMA Manual of Style : a guide for authors and editors
Call Number: R119 .A533 2020
ISBN: 9780190246594
Publication Date: 2020
Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA) by American Psychological Association Staff
Call Number: BF76.7 .P83 2020
ISBN: 1433832151
Publication Date: 2020

What's in a citation?

Most citations include the following information:

Author(s) (Either a person, an organization or corporate author.)
Title
Source (Such as place of publication and publisher for books; or title, volume, issue number, and pages numbers for periodicals.)
Date
URL (Uniform Resource Locator) for Internet sources

Information is arranged based on the type of material. Some citation types also include additional information.

Citation Management Software

Citation management software allows you to organize your citations by topic, class, or project and then quickly create a bibliography or cite a source within your paper.

EndNote Basic
Organize, manage, and cite your references online. This version is free to Auraria Campus students, faculty, and staff. May also be called EndNote Online or EndNote Basic. There is no software to install.
EndNote 20
If you are not affiliated with the University of Colorado Denver, you can purchase EndNote 20.
Mendeley
Free reference manager and academic social network. Make your own fully-searchable library in seconds, cite as you write, and read and annotate your PDFs on any device.
Zotero
A free product that can help you manage and format your citations. It is a Firefox plug-in. Download the plug-in and start uploading citations.
Comparison of Reference (Citation) Management Software
This Wikipedia article offers a more complete listing and comparison of citation management software.
Citation Managers Comparison Chart
Compares EndNote Desktop, EndNote Basic, Mendeley, and Zotero. From the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries.

Research Guides about Citation Management Software