Great Problems Seminar (GPS): Citing Sources

Resources for the 7th Edition (2020) formatting rules for APA citations:

What is a citation management system?

Citation management tools are software clients loaded on your computer or web/cloud-based applications that are used to store, organize and utilize bibliographic citations.  Essentially, these tools are a database of the researcher's selected citations.  Zotero, is a freely available, open-source citation management system.

Most provide the following functions:

• Means of adding citations to the database, either manually or be importing citations from bibliographic databases or other sources.
• Methods for saving and organizing citations and/or searching within the database.
• Integration with word processing or other document production software to incorporated properly formatted citations into scholarly writing.
• Mechanisms for sharing citations with collaborators.
• Methods to create a stand-alone bibliography