TESOL and Second Language Education

EndNote Web is a web-based service for managing and citing references in papers and creating bibliographies.

Zotero is a citation management tool that is built into your web browser to help you collect, organize, and share citations. Zotero's big strengths are its browser extensions, which let you grab citations right off the web, and its user-friendly features, like enabling drag-and-drop citation placement. Zotero also helps you create and format bibliographies and footnotes in a wide variety of citation styles. Zotero works with Firefox for PC, Mac, and Linux, and is compatible with MS Office and Open Office. Zotero also has great options for power researchers, like automatically remembering proxies and assigning BibTeX labels based on author name.

Mendeley is a citation management desktop client based primarily around the cultivation of PDFs, but can also be used for managing and sharing research papers, discovering research data and collaborating online. You can import PDFs, highlight and annotate them, get readership statistics, and even choose a folder on your computer for Mendeley to "watch" for new content. Mendeley also gives you the opportunity to search across papers cultivated by other Mendeley user. Mendeley requires the user to store all data on its servers

Offers examples for citing common types of sources using APA style

Contains examples of how to cite the common types of sources in the MLA style

Learn the best practices for proper citation to avoid plagiarism

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