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Library research in a nutshell: a guide for students in the course SEBS Portals to Academic Success, Spring, 2024

Citation Style Guides

Free writing and citing style guides.  Use these to format your work in ALA, MLA or other styles. 

Citation Management and Formatting Tools

RefWorks is one of the Web-based bibliography and database managers that enables you to:

  • Organize your research
  • Import references from many electronic databases
  • Include citations while you write your paper
  • Create a bibliography according to different stylesheets (APA, MLA, etc.) in different document formats (Word, RTF, HTML, etc.)

RefWorks is available for Rutgers University students, faculty, and staff.

What is RefWorks?

RefWorks is a cloud-based research and bibliographic management tool providing access to your references and documents from any computer or mobile device. Using RefWorks, you can

  • import or manually upload citations and full-text articles from databases and websites 
  • organize, customize, and store information in folders and subfolders
  • read, highlight, and annotate documents
  • add in-text citations and footnotes to a paper directly from your RefWorks library
  • create and format a bibliography in a variety of citation styles
  • share documents to collaborate with other researchers

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Video: Why Citations Matter