{"id":10181,"date":"2022-05-05T10:30:39","date_gmt":"2022-05-05T14:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/?page_id=10181"},"modified":"2026-07-06T12:20:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T16:20:27","slug":"citing_sources","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/services\/citing_sources\/","title":{"rendered":"Citing Sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>How To Cite Sources<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Quick Guide to APA Style: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apastyle.org\/\">web <\/a><\/li>\n<li>Citing Generative AI: <a href=\"https:\/\/libguides.marshall.edu\/plagiarism-AI\/cite\">web<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Knight Cite (enter citations and receive correct MLA, APA, or Chicago style format): <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calvin.edu\/library\/knightcite\/\">web<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Zotoro: free Firefox extension helps you collect, manage, and cite your research sources: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zotero.org\/\">web<\/a><\/li>\n<li>EasyBib free automatic bibliography and citation maker: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.easybib.com\/\">web<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The MLA Style Center: <a href=\"https:\/\/style.mla.org\/\">web<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The Chicago Manual of Style: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagomanualofstyle.org\/home.html\">web<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>About Citing Sources<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>How To Recognize And Avoid Plagiarism: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=g2XzJsQ0-OU\">YouTube<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/libguides.marshall.edu\/plagiarism-AI\/cite\">How to Cite Generative AI <\/a>(ChatGPT, etc.)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/owl.english.purdue.edu\/owl\/section\/2\/\">Purdue Online Writing Lab<\/a> (OWL)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Before You Cite<\/h2>\n<p>Please pay special attention to citation tools, citation generators, or any other kind of citation aid. Sometimes, they do not generate the information in the correct format, or may generate using an outdated version.<\/p>\n<p>Some examples include (but are definitely not limited to):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Microsoft Word\u2019s <i>Citations &amp; Bibliography<\/i> tool may generate a citation based on an outdated version of MLA<\/li>\n<li>The library search\u2019s Summon Citation tool might generate a citation out of order<\/li>\n<li>The Academic Search Premier database <i>Cite This<\/i> button may put some text in all caps<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When in doubt, just <a href=\"https:\/\/libguides.marshall.edu\/ask-a-librarian\">Ask A Librarian<\/a> for help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How To Cite Sources Quick Guide to APA Style: web Citing Generative AI: web Knight Cite (enter citations and receive correct MLA, APA, or Chicago style format): web Zotoro: free Firefox extension helps you collect, manage, and cite your research sources: web EasyBib free automatic bibliography and citation maker: web The MLA Style Center: web<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"parent":72,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-full-width.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-10181","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10181"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16054,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10181\/revisions\/16054"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/72"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}