Citation Machine

Use Son of Citation Machine to create bibliographic citations for the following styles:

MLA

APA

Chicago

Turabian

How it works:

INSTRUCTIONS:

  1. Click the citation format you need (on the website address above) and then the type of resource you wish to cite.
  2. Complete the Web form that appears with information from your source.
  3. Click Make Citations to generate standard bibliographic and in-text citations.

Example and explanation of the APA and MLA styles in an example research paper from Diane Hacker.  This shows you what in-text citation and bib's should look like.

APA

MLA

MLA Format

Follow this link for a guide to the MLA format, with examples, written by the librarians at CAL State

http://www.calstatela.edu/library/guides/3mla.pdf