Writing and Citing Tools

Bibliography Creators

• Refworks - online tool that manages citations and creates biblographies in over 30 styles; use it all 4 years!
  Tutorial - Quickstart-Guide(PDF) - Tipsheets to Import from MHC Databases(PDF)
• Microsoft Office Word 2007 Managing Citations Tool Guide from Florida Gulf Coast University

Style Guides - Citation Styles

• Research and Documentation Online Guide - citation format guides and examples for MLA, Chicago, APA, CSE

• CiteSource - guide for translating print materials into citations (ex: journal in hand and not sure how to cite it?)

• Chicago Style Citation Quick Guide - citation samples for multiple formats from the Chicago Manual of Syle.

• Bibliography Styles Handbook at the Writers' Workshop, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  "This Handbook summarizes and illustrates the bibliographical formatting rules for two different citation styles: the American Psychological Association (APA) style and the Modern Languages Association (MLA) style."

• A Guide for Writing Research Papers based on Modern Language Association (MLA) Documentation
  Prepared by the Humanities Department and the Arthur C. Banks, Jr., Library Capital Community College Hartford, Connecticut

• APA Publication Manual Crib Sheet from the College of Wooster

• Citing Sources - from Duke University Libraries

• More Style and Citation Guides a list of useful web sites from the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions

Writing Manuals

• Paradigm Online Writing Assistant Chuck Guilford, associate professor of English at Boise State University
  "an interactive, menu-driven, online writer's guide and handbook"

• Hypertext Writer's Guide University of Victoria
  "an introduction to the process of writing and to the study of literature"

• Writer's Handbook The University of Wisconsin-Madison Writing Center

• Guide to Grammar and Style By Jack Lynch
  "grammatical rules and explanations, comments on style, and suggestions on usage"

• 501 Grammar And Writing Questions New York : LearningExpress, 1999. netLibrary edition. MHC Campus only

• The Text Doctor Provides links to writing-related reference sources eg. Dictionaries, Grammars, Quotations.

• The Craft of Scientific Writing by Michael Alley

• Guides for Better Science Research and Writing Indiana University Chemistry Library

Reference

• English Language Referencefrom Oxford Reference Online
  
  
  • The Oxford Dictionary of English Grammar
  • Concise Oxford Companion to The English Language
  • Pocket Fowler's Modern English Usage
  • The Oxford Dictionary of American Usage and Style

• Bartleby's English Usage, Style & Composition collection
  "contemporary and classic usage guides"

  • The American Heritage Book of English Usage: A Practical and Authoritative Guide to Contemporary English. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1996.
  • Strunk, William. Elements of Style. Ithaca, N.Y.: Priv. print. [Geneva, N.Y.: Press of W.P. Humphrey], 1918.

• Glossary of Literary Terms and Handbook of Rhetorical Devices by Robert Harris, (retired) Professor of English at Vanguard University of Southern California in Costa Mesa, California