Research Guides: Communication: Creating & Managing Citations

Tools to help manage sources & citation

Zotero
Zotero is free software to help you collect, organize, cite, and share your research sources.
Zoterobib
ZoteroBib is a free service that helps you build a bibliography instantly from any computer or device, without creating an account or installing any software.
EndNote
EndNote is a research management software package that imports, organizes and stores the citations you find using research databases and library catalogs. EndNote is available at a discounted price from the OSU Tech Hub.. EndNote guide.
RefWorks
The bibliographic management system that the OSU Libraries subscribes to for our students and faculty to use. For more information, see the RefWorks guide.
OSU Citation Software Guide
More information on citation resources offered by OSU Libraries.
Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association
Find copies of the APA Style Manual at OSU Libraries.
APA Formatting & Style Guide from Purdue OWL
A great resource for learning to create citations and format documents using APA style.

A warning about database-created citations

Many databases, including Communication and Mass Media Complete have a feature. These are super-handy because clicking on these gets the database to "create" a citation for you that you can then cut and paste into a bibliography. But, databases MAKE MISTAKES. Please consider a database-created citation a DRAFT. Double-check your work against the Style Manual (or one of its deriatives) listed above.

APA Style Blog

Associate Professor, Librarian for Communication & Political Science

Hilary Bussell

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Subjects: Communications, Political Science