LibGuides: Biology: Citing Sources

Need Help with Citations?

ISU Writing Center

Don't forget that you can use the ISU Writing Center to help you review your paper including your reference page! Walk-in and appointment service is available for Pocatello or Idaho Falls students, and distance students can get help online.

Citations

APA Style
APA is used in a wide variety of social and hard sciences, which include Nursing, Psychology, Sociology, and Library Science.

MLA CItation and Writing Style
MLA writing and citation style is primarily used in the humanities, including English, Languages and Literature, Literary Criticism, and Cultural Studies.

Chicago Style
Chicago Style is commonly used in the humanities and some social sciences, including History and some Anthropological disciplines.

Citing Sources: Turabian
This site includes examples that illustrate citations using author-date style and notes-bibliography style.

Citation Generators

Citation generators are minimalist websites that will help you to create citations to include in the bibliography or works cited pages of your papers. They will not organize your research like other, full-featured citation management systems, but they are easy to use and will create correctly-formatted citations. The principle of good in, good out applies here, so the citations are only as good as the data that you enter into the machine, so make sure to double check the completed citations before including them in your assignments.

Citing Your Sources - Reference Managers

by futureatlas.com

The reference page can sometimes be the most stressful part of writing a paper, but doesn't have to be this way!

There are three tools you can use to make this process much easier! Click on the links below to learn more about each.

Be Aware!

From Academic Tim Gunn

Citation software such as Zotero, Mendeley, and EndNote Basic are provided for your convenience only. Please use them with caution. They are not perfect, and they do make mistakes when creating bibliographies. Be sure to review the results to check for formatting, spelling, capitalization, punctuation, required elements, etc. for the citation style you are using. Consult the appropriate official style manual for the definitive answer to your citation questions.

How to Citate? (Videos)

Zotero- Creating Citations & References
Learn how to use Zotero to create quick references and to use it as you're writing your paper
Citations & Organization- LLIB-1115
Citation mining- Getting Unstuck in Your Search
Use citation mining to expand a search you may be stuck on.
Reference Managers for Grad Students
This is a very brief overview of reference managers. The intended audience is graduate students at Idaho State University

Academic Integrity and Plagiarism

Plagiarism Guide
Be aware that different disciplines, cultures, and individuals have different accepted ways of presenting and acknowledging sources for information. This guide is meant to be a starting point and a general guide. Please check with your individual course instructor if you have any doubts about plagiarism.

Biology: Citing Sources