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Writing a Literature Review: Bibliography

Tips on writing a literature review (in any subject).

Works Cited/Bibliography

It is essential that you document your lit. review well. Check with your professor for the preferred bibliography style. It is likely that the requisite style will be that of the American Psychological Association (APA) or of the Modern Language Association (MLA) or perhaps the Humanities version of The Chicago Manual of Style.

Some guides for documenting papers appropriately:

Works Cited/ Bibliography

It is essential that you document your literature review. Check with your professor for the preferred bibliography style. It is likely that the requisite style will be that of the American Psychological Association (APA) or of the Modern Language Association (MLA) or perhaps the Humanities version of The Chicago Manual of Style.

Some guides for documenting papers appropriately:

Managing Citations - Tools

RefWorks is a powerful online citation management, research, writing, and collaboration tool. It is designed to help researchers quickly gather, organize, store, and share all types of information and to generate citations and bibliographies. Please visit this LibGuide to learn more about the library's subscription to this product and set up a free account.

With RefWorks, you can do the following:

  • Organize your resources by project, in folders, or with tags
  • Create formatted reference lists and annotated bibliographies
  • Import citations directly and indirectly from Library databases as well as research websites like Google Scholar 
  • Access your sources directly within Microsoft Word
  • Share citations and source lists 

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