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SW 101: Social Work and Social Justice: Cite Sources (Several Styles)

Cite Sources

This guide provides general advice about citing resources in three commonly used citation styles: APA, Chicago, and MLA.

Ask your professor for guidance about the preferred citation style for your course.

APA Style (7th ed.) Help

Chicago Style (17th ed.) Help

MLA Style (9th ed.) Help

Reference Managers

The library's subscription to RefWorks is ending on April 30, 2025.

We recommend moving to Zotero as a free alternative for managing your references and automatically creating bibliographies in your preferred citation styles (APA, Chicago, MLA, and many more).

Reference Manager Tools

Reference managers and quick citation generators can automatically format citations in the style you need. We recommend ZoteroBib for generating quick citations and Zotero as a reference manager.

A reference manager is a useful productivity tool for your research and writing projects because you can:

  • Collect and organize your sources in one place
  • Create bibliographies for papers in the style you need
  • Add full-text documents to your account and annotate them
  • Share sources with others for group projects

UP Writing Center

For assistance with writing papers, make an appointment with:

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