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Writing 101: Closing the Gender Gap in STEM

Elements of a citation

In this course, you will be using the American Psychological Association (APA) citation style. You can access more info about APA style from Purdue's Online Writing Lab (OWL).

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Citation managers

Citation tools allow you to save and organize your research. They also let you create formatted bibliographies.

Zotero

Downloadable as a standalone program or a Firefox extension, Zotero is designed to store content in any format, including PDFs, images, audio and video files, and snapshots of web pages. Zotero operates with thousands of sites, and automatically indexes your library for ease of access.

Downloadable as a standalone program from OIT, EndNote is a powerful citation tool for organizing your research and creating formatted citations. In addition to the standalone option, you can create an EndNote Web account.