Citing Research Sources
In today's technology rich world, there are more resources available than we can wade through at times. It's almost overwhelming! As with most everything, they're not always a "one size fits all" tool, so filtering through the options to find one that does what you want, organizes in a way that's easy and understandable for you, that cites like you need, etc., can take a while. Listed below are a few tools that I have found to be the easiest options for students using Chromebooks or working with Google, along with a couple more that come highly recommended.
Google users have an awesome research tool right at their fingertips, built into their Google Drive when working with Google Docs or Google Slides files. Open a file, click on "Tools" in the upper menu, and select "Research." A Research window opens on the right, with choice to search for Images, Scholarly Resources, Quotes, Dictionary, Tables, or Everything. When you hover over one of the results, you get the option to Insert Link or Cite. It will automatically insert the footnote and citation for you. You can click on the tiny pull-down arrow under the search box to set the filter options for image searches and the style to use for citations (MLA, APA).
Google also offers an Add-ons for Google Documents called EasyBib Bibliography Creator. The EasyBib Bibliography Creator allows you to automatically cite resources and generate a bibliography in APA, MLA, or one of over 7K other styles. When you are ready, click on "Generate Bibliogrpahy" and EasyBib alphabetizes your citations and adds them to the end of your Google Doc. You can watch this short video to see how to add the Easybib Add-on to your Google account.
Richard Byrne, author of the "Free Technology for Teachers" blog, recommends three more sources:
"Cite This For Me is a free service designed to help students keep track of the resources that they use in their research work. Cite This For Me offers a free Chrome extension that lets students cite a webpage with just one click. The free extension will format citations in APA, MLA, Harvard, or Chicago style. Students can also use the extension to highlight and save portions of the webpages that they are citing. All Cite This For Me citations are saved in students' free Cite This For Me accounts. In their account dashboards students can edit citations as well as manually enter citations of books, journals, and other references.
refDot is a Google Chrome extension that could be very helpful for keeping track of and formatting references for use in bibliographies. Whenever you're viewing a website, an online book, an online journal, or a news article just click the refDot icon in your browser to open a window into which you enter all of information you need for a bibliography. For example if you were viewing a blog post on Free Technology for Teachers that you wanted to reference in a bibliography, click on refDot and the pop-up box will prompt you to enter the date of access, URL, title, and year.
RefMe is currently my favorite tool for creating bibliographies outside of the Google Docs environment. RefMe offers browser extensions, a free Android, and a free iPad app for saving resources and generating bibliographies from your collection of resources. Watch my video embedded below to learn more about how to use RefMe in your web browser."
Google users have an awesome research tool right at their fingertips, built into their Google Drive when working with Google Docs or Google Slides files. Open a file, click on "Tools" in the upper menu, and select "Research." A Research window opens on the right, with choice to search for Images, Scholarly Resources, Quotes, Dictionary, Tables, or Everything. When you hover over one of the results, you get the option to Insert Link or Cite. It will automatically insert the footnote and citation for you. You can click on the tiny pull-down arrow under the search box to set the filter options for image searches and the style to use for citations (MLA, APA).
Google also offers an Add-ons for Google Documents called EasyBib Bibliography Creator. The EasyBib Bibliography Creator allows you to automatically cite resources and generate a bibliography in APA, MLA, or one of over 7K other styles. When you are ready, click on "Generate Bibliogrpahy" and EasyBib alphabetizes your citations and adds them to the end of your Google Doc. You can watch this short video to see how to add the Easybib Add-on to your Google account.
Richard Byrne, author of the "Free Technology for Teachers" blog, recommends three more sources:
"Cite This For Me is a free service designed to help students keep track of the resources that they use in their research work. Cite This For Me offers a free Chrome extension that lets students cite a webpage with just one click. The free extension will format citations in APA, MLA, Harvard, or Chicago style. Students can also use the extension to highlight and save portions of the webpages that they are citing. All Cite This For Me citations are saved in students' free Cite This For Me accounts. In their account dashboards students can edit citations as well as manually enter citations of books, journals, and other references.
refDot is a Google Chrome extension that could be very helpful for keeping track of and formatting references for use in bibliographies. Whenever you're viewing a website, an online book, an online journal, or a news article just click the refDot icon in your browser to open a window into which you enter all of information you need for a bibliography. For example if you were viewing a blog post on Free Technology for Teachers that you wanted to reference in a bibliography, click on refDot and the pop-up box will prompt you to enter the date of access, URL, title, and year.
RefMe is currently my favorite tool for creating bibliographies outside of the Google Docs environment. RefMe offers browser extensions, a free Android, and a free iPad app for saving resources and generating bibliographies from your collection of resources. Watch my video embedded below to learn more about how to use RefMe in your web browser."
Byrne, Richard. "5 Tools to Organize and Cite Research Sources." Free Technology for Teachers. N.p., n.d. Web. 28 Sept. 2016. <http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2016/09/5-tools-to-organize-and-cite-research.html#.V-vDMfArK01>.
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