Open Resources in Alcohol Studies

The guide aims to help anyone interested in alcohol -related information for research or any other purposes.

Research 101

If it's been a while since you have had to do a research paper, you may find the Easybib.com's Student Resources a comfort. Written with high school students in mind, it offers a 'no-assumptions" guide to begining your work.

Citation Style Guides

These links will help you format your work in APA, MLA or other styles.

Purdue University OWL
Resources and how-to's for APA, MLA and Chicago style.
Research and Documentation Online
Use the "Social Sciences" link for information on APA style and the "Humanities" link for MLA style.
Trinity College Cite Source
Browse the links on the right for guides to Chicago, ASA, MLA, ACS, APA and APSA.
Official APA style site
See the "Frequently Asked Questions about APA Style" for citation examples.
Best of the APA Style Blog
This "Best of" blog post collects the most frequently used posts, including sample papers in APA and how to's for citing social media like Facebook and Twitter.
RUL LibGuide on Writing & Citation Formatting
Links to reference management systems, citation style guides and writing tutorials.

Citation Management Software

Writing and citing get a lot easier when you use a Citation Management System! If you or your colleagues don't use a bibliography or citation manager, you may want to consider:

Zotero
A free, easy to use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, cite and share your research sources. Detailed help can be found at RUL Zotero research guide (click on Zotero Citations on the right side of this page).
Mendeley
A free reference manager and academic social network. It allows users to create a library, make citations as they work and read and annotate PDF files.
EndNote
A popular citation manager software (purchase required). Go here for tutorials and free webinars on using EndNote.