Teaching for Information Literacy

Collecting and Documenting Resources

Students should be keeping track of the resources that they find during this stage of their research.  If they do this as they research it will save a great deal of time  and even frustration as they near the end of the research process.

There are a number of tools that students can use to keep track of the resources they find:

 A generic working bibliography(.doc)

Free Online Citation Generators:
Citation Machine,is an interactive web tool designed to assist high school, college, and university students, their teachers, and independent researchers in their effort to respect other people's intellectual properties.
Ottobib, books only.... entering the ISBN provides instant citations in MLA, APA, and Chicago/Turabian styles
NoodleBib Express, Individual citations in MLA or APA format. Full range of citation types.
BibMe, is a free online tool that allows you to create a works cited page or a reference page. You can save your bibliographies and print them.