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Reference E-books

CREDO Reference includes over 250 reference books online with 65,000 searchable images.  Subjects cover Arts & Humanities, Accounting, Economics, Finance, Science, Law, History & Society, Management, and Information Technology.

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Get a good overview and history of a topic, term or issue.

Focus your topic and place it properly within context of the field of study.

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Purdue University: Online Writing Lab- APA Formatting and Style Guide
Information on how to format a paper in APA style, with citations, references, and footnotes.  Examples provided.

Purdue University: Online Writing Lab- MLA Formatting and Style Guide
Information on how to format a paper in MLA style, with citations, references, and footnotes.  Examples provided.

Research and Documentation Online by Diana Hacker
Information broken down into sections: Humanities, Social Sciences, History, and Sciences.  Each section provides links to documentation information and online resource subject guides.

University of Wisconsin-Madison: The Writing center- Citing References in Your Paper
Information on quoting and paraphrasing, APSA, APA, Chicago/Turabian, CBE, and MLA styles, and numbered references.

Purdue University: Online Writing Lab- Annotated Bibliographies
Information on how to create an Annotated Bibliography.  The site includes different formats and examples.

Colorado State University: Writing Guides; Working with Sources
Information and overviews on documentation, evaluation of sources, using endnotes, and styles.

Son of Citation Machine
A website that allows you to input the information for a book and its author and receive formatted citations in MLA, APA, Turabian, or Chicago formats.