Plagiarism and Academic Integrity at UC Merced

Includes a list of style manuals, citation examples and sample papers.

Free automatic bibliography generator that supports MLA, APA, Chicago, and Turabian formatting

Assists students and professional researchers to properly credit the information they use.

Guidelines, structures and examples for citing common sources in MLA, APA and Chicago Notes styles.

Citation Builder creates citations for you in APA, MLA, and Chicago CBE/CSE formats.

Zotero is a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources.

A bibliographic citation manager licensed by the UC Merced Library.

Zotero is an open-source citation management tool that allows you to save citations directly from many library databases in any citation format you choose. You can also use Zotero to create bibliographies and lists of references for papers. Zotero is free, just for signing up, and you'll keep your account after you graduate. It requires a one-time download.

Like Zotero, Mendeley is an open-source bibliographic management tool that will allow you to save citations directly from library databases in any format you choose. Mendeley is also free, just for signing up, and you'll keep your account after you graduate.