Research Guides: Literary Criticism Overview: Cite Sources

Why do I need to cite my sources?

To allow others to find the information you used in your research paper.
To help establish the credibility of your research.
To acknowledge the work of other scholars who have made your own research possible.
To help you avoid plagiarizing!

TCC Guide to MLA Style Citations
Librarian-created guide to formatting in-text citations and creating the Works Cited page in MLA style.
Purdue OWL Guide to MLA Style
MLA (Modern Language Association) style is most commonly used to write papers and cite sources within the liberal arts and humanities. This resource, updated to reflect the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers (7th ed.) and the MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing (3rd ed.), offers examples for the general format of MLA research papers, in-text citations, endnotes/footnotes, and the Works Cited page.

Using Microsoft Word to Write an MLA Paper

Created by the Trinity River Library to assist you with formatting a paper using the MLA style.

These sites have free, online tools that can help you format citations for your bibliography.

Easy Bib
EasyBib is an intuitive information literacy platform that provides citation, note taking, and research tools that are easy-to-use and educational. We cite according to the 7th ed. of MLA, 6th ed. of APA, and 16th ed. of Chicago (7th ed. Turabian).
BibMe
BibMe is a free automatic citation creator that supports MLA, APA, Chicago, and Turabian formatting.
Son of Citation Machine
Citation Machine helps students and professional researchers properly credit the information that they use.
KnightCite
Brought to you by Calvin College Admissions. We use the 7th ed. of MLA, 6th ed. of APA, and 16th ed. of Chicago (7th ed. Turabian).

What is citation? And why do we do it? This video explains! (1:54 min)
Courtesy NCSU Libraries