Research Guides at CSU Pueblo Library: Citation Styles: APA, MLA, Chicago, Turabian, IEEE: Writing & Citing Help

CSU Pueblo Writing Center

Want to talk about your writing? Need help with your essay assignment? Looking for feedback on a research paper, a creative work, a scholarship essay, or any other kind of writing? The Writing Center is here for you!

CSU Pueblo Writing Center
Meet with a writing tutor and engage in a collaborative discussion about your writing and ways to improve it—by talking about matters like focus, development, organization, sentence structure, and punctuation. The writing room also provides help on citations.

Citation Managers

Citation managers create personal databases of citation information as well as notes on your research. With a citation manager, you can

import citation information from databases, article indexes, and other sources
organize your citations and pdfs
save .pdfs alongside their citation information
format your citations in a particular style (MLA, APA, Chicago, and numerous others), and incorporate those citations easily in your paper
take notes and include them alongside citations

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CSU-Pueblo students, faculty, and staff have free access to EndNote Web. You will need to Sign up for an account to save and manage citations.

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Store and organize citations and automatically generate a works cited page. Requires you to make an EndNote account.

Need help using EndNote? Check out the tutorial below, or register for the library's "Citing Made Simple with EndNote Web" research workshop. Also check out the Cite While You Write tutorial.

An introduction to EndNote Web
Capture Tool
Use this tool to import citations from Google Scholar into EndNote.

Other citation managers are available online for free use. At CSU-Pueblo, these resources are yours to use; however, the library does not provide support for them.

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Zotero
This is a free, open-source product, which allows you to collect your sources, organize them per your preferences, cite them in a paper, and share them with co-researchers.
Zotero Support
Get help with Zotero, both as a web client and a desktop application.
Zotero basics workshop

Mendeley
A free reference manager, Mendeley helps you create a fully-searchable library, network with other scholars, and read, annotate, and store PDFs.
Mendeley Support
Mendeley offers a community of support for getting started and troubleshooting technical difficulties.
Getting started with Mendeley

Need to quickly grab the citation for a book or article? Use the "citation" button in SuperSearch or click on EndNote to send the citation to a citation management tool.

Remember: The cite button is not foolproof. Always double-check the citation before submitting your final paper.

In SuperSearch, you'll find the citation button in the Send To menu: