Research Guides: The Matrix: Dealing with References

Citation Managers

RefWorks FAQ
Citation manager available free to all Rutgers students and faculty. RefWorks lives online and stores your references until you need them. Great for long papers; use with databases that have no formatted bibliography output, such as Google Scholar. Many Rutgers databases export citations to RefWorks.
Quick Guide to Zotero (Mei Ling Lo and Jill Nathanson, Rutgers Library of Science and Medicine)
Zotero is a free plug-in to the Mozilla Firefox browser. Zotero will help you collect references, produce bibliographies, and format your papers.
EndNote
The gold standard for citation managers, but proprietary and definitely NOT FREE. Check for current academic pricing. No site license at Rutgers for students; a very limited online version receives output from the Web of Science database.
Learning Tools
Check out our list of additional Citation Formatting Tools.
List of Free and Low-Cost Citation Generators
Hunter and Rand at Hampden-Sydney College put together this 2009 list. Very useful information on what each citation generator can do. Hunter is a librarian at the college, and Rand is a professor of rhetoric there.

MLA Style Info

Find Out about Constructing the List of Works Cited and More on the MLA Citation Page.

In-Text Citations

Examples of MLA In-Text Citations (Author-Page Format) from the Purdue OWL (http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/02/):

Romantic poetry is characterized by the "spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings" (Wordsworth 263). Author-Page. Note that no comma is used in MLA between the author and the page number.

Wordsworth stated that Romantic poetry was marked by a "spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings" (263). Page only because author was already mentioned in the sentence.

Wordsworth extensively explored the role of emotion in the creative process (263). Page only because author was already mentioned in the sentence. Note that an in-text citation has to be used even though this is a paraphrase and not an exact quote.

Your Works Cited entry for all these in-text citations would look like this:

Works Cited

Wordsworth, William. Lyrical Ballads. London: Oxford U.P., 1967. Print.

For more information, go to the In-Text Citations Page of the Purdue Online Writing Laboratory (OWL).