RefWorks
The Mansfield Library subscribes to RefWorks to make research and citation easier for you. RefWorks is a citation management tool that stores your electronic articles in one place for easy access, organization, citation and sharing. You can save web page content and metadata, create collections to organize or share documents and citations, and upload PDF and Office documents.
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Web-based bibliographic research management, writing, and collaboration tool. Designed for researchers to gather, organize, store and share all types of information and to generate formatted citations and bibliographies.
Chicago and Turabian Style Guides
The Chicago Manual of Style and Turabian style are largely the same. Kate L. Turabian designed her guide specifically for students and researchers when she worked as dissertation secretary at the University of Chicago. Her guide is based on The Chicago Manual of Style and focuses on the rules most important for student papers and other research not intended for publication. Consult that manual if you need to use Turabian style specifically.
Electronic
The Chicago Manual of Style Online. Seventeenth Edition.
Print at the Reference Desk
The Chicago Manual of Style. Seventeenth Ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017.
Turabian, Kate, et al. A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations. Ninth Ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018.
Online Guides
OWL resources will help you learn to use the Chicago Manual of Style citation and format styles. You'll find resources on in-text citations and the bibliography, as well as CMOS sample papers, slide presentations, and the CMOS classroom poster.
Writing Help
The University of Montana's Writing Center helps undergraduate and graduate students in all disciplines become more independent, versatile, and effective writers. The center's website has a lot of good resources.
Here's another online source of information for improving your writing:
Avoiding Plagiarism
There are many excellent online guides intended to assist students in understanding and avoiding plagiarism, including:
- Plagiarism: What It Is and How to Recognize and Avoid ItThis site from Indiana University-Bloomington has helpful tips on avoiding plagiarism, including examples of when to cite and how to paraphrase. It also includes a quick quiz that can help you determine how much you know about plagiarism and correct citation.
- Writing Research Essays – A Guide for Students of All NationsThis guide by William Badke of Trinity Western University contains helpful advice for international students (and Americans, too!) on what constitutes cheating and plagiarism in North America.