Bibliography and Citation Tools

The tools included in this list are among the best web services you can find online to help with the integration of bibliography and citations into documents. They cover different style formats including APA, MLA, and Chicago.

EndNote Basic

1. EndNote Basic

EndNote is a commercial reference management software package, used to manage bibliographies and references when writing essays and articles. It is produced by Thomson Reuters.It helps you collect, organize and share citations from library databases and catalogues. EndNote also helps you format your papers, creating bibliographies and footnotes in a wide variety of citation styles (Chicago, MLA, APA, etc.)

Available Online, Anytime.
• Store up to 50,000 references
• 20 most popular bibliographic styles
• 2GB of file storage
• Search the 6 most popular databases
• Webpage reference capture

Create your free account at https://www.myendnoteweb.com/

Bibme

2. Bibme

This is the fully automatic bibliography maker that auto-fills. It is the easiest way to build a works cited page.

http://www.bibme.org/

Easy Bib

3. Easy Bib

This is another great tool for students to help them with citing their bibliographies it includes things such as radio shows, recorded music, and even works of arts from museums.

http://www.easybib.com/

RefWorks

4. RefWorks

This is an online research management, writing and collaboration tool. It is designed to help researchers easily gather, manage, store and share all types of information, as well as generate citations and bibliographies.

http://www.refworks.com/

Oregon Public Education Citation Maker for MLA

5. Oregon Public Education Citation Maker for MLA

This is a fantastic tool for students. It gives them the freedom to cite different kinds of sources including anthologies, story collection, and web pages.

http://www.openc.k12.or.us/citeintro/citeintro.php?Grd=Sec

Citation Machine

6. Citation Machine

This one helps students and professional researchers to properly credit the information that they use. Its primary goal is to make it easy for student researchers to cite their information sources.

http://citationmachine.net/index2.php

refDot

7. refDot

This is a chrome extension that lets users easily grab references for use in bibliographies. It is very easy to use and once it is installed all you need to do is to click on its icon and a small window will pop up where you can fill in bibliographic information.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/refdot/hdhekmbccpnbffkkdoinkjmggbcpcflo

Citelighter

8. Citelighter

This is a wonderful tool that allows users to bookmark sections of webpages together with the information needed to create an APA, MLA, or Chicago style bibliography.

http://www.citelighter.com/

Citefast

9. Citefast

This is a tool I just learned about it from one of my readers and I am adding it now to this list. Citefast is a fast an accurate citation generator. It generates bibliography, in-text citations and a title page in APA 6th edition, MLA and Chicago.

http://www.citefast.com/