Research

MLA (Modern Language Association) style is most commonly used to write papers and cite sources within the liberal arts and humanities. This resource, updated to reflect the MLA Handbook (8th ed.), offers examples for the general format of MLA research papers, in-text citations, endnotes/footnotes, and the Works Cited page.

This vidcast discusses how to format a paper using Microsoft Word according to MLA style. To learn more about MLA style, please visit the following resource on the Purdue OWL. [CC]

Web content on in-text citations from the Purdue OWL.

This vidcast explains how to create a Works Cited list using MLA 8th Edition, which was published in 2016. [CC]

APA (American Psychological Association) style is most commonly used to cite sources within the social sciences.

This vidcast discusses how to format a paper using Microsoft Word according to APA style.

This vidcast introduces the viewers to the basics of APA style documentation, focusing on the reference list

This section contains information on The Chicago Manual of Style method of document formatting and citation. These resources follow the sixteenth edition of The Chicago Manual of Style, which was issued in September 2010.

These resources provide guidance on how to cite sources using American Medical Association (AMA) Style, 10th Ed., including examples for print and electronic sources.

These OWL resources will help you conduct research using primary source methods, such as interviews and observations, and secondary source methods, such as books, journals, and the Internet. This area also includes materials on evaluating research sources.

Literary Reference Center provides virtually all the information you will need to effectively conduct literary research and write research papers. Because there is a wealth of information contained in this database, this guide is provided to support your research and writing process, helping you to write the best possible paper.

This three-section streaming video program tells how to identify and cite reliable online and offline sources of information, carve textbook chapters into manageable chunks, and outline and revise papers—all elements that are essential to getting the job done well. A Cambridge Educational Production. A part of the series Academic Success: Smart Tips for Serious Students.

Online form to request research assistance from a librarian.

There are few intellectual offenses more serious than plagiarism in academic and professional contexts. This resource offers advice on how to avoid plagiarism in your work.

For a generation raised on the ideology of “open source” and the ability to quickly cut and paste, the concept of plagiarism may seem foreign or passé. And that, of course, can lead to trouble. This video examines the behaviors that constitute plagiarism, their consequences, and the best ways to avoid them. Showing how accidental copying as well as willful plagiarism can occur, the program lays out the dangers of cheating, then illustrates the pitfalls of nonattribution and patch writing while showing how to properly attribute and paraphrase a lengthy quotation. Copyright, trademark, and intellectual property concepts are clearly discussed, in addition to potential sources of noncopyrighted material. Common citation formats (APA, MLA, Bluebook, etc.) are listed along with the suggestion that the student confer with his or her instructor about them.

From the University of California - Berkeley, the information on these pages should help you explain why a particular source is a good fit for your research project.

From Johns Hopkins University, these pages discuss the criteria by which scholars in most fields evaluate print information, and shows how the same criteria can be used to assess information found on the Internet.