Introduction

Downloading Citation 9

Taking Notes

Writing Your Paper

Proofreading

Printable Checklist

Checklist

Citation 9 helps you

• keep track of research notes and sources
• format citations and bibliographies

ISU students, faculty, and staff can download Citation 9 for free at the Citation Information Page (http://panther.indstate.edu:2066/intranet.dir/citation.html). Citation 9 is also available on public computers in the Library.

Citation will send you an e-mail with further instructions and an "unlock code" for the software.

To begin recording sources and taking notes, open Citation 9. Go to File, New Datafile. Citation will prompt you to begin adding records.

To add more source records to Citation, go to Edit, Add Record.

To add notes to your source records in Citation, go to Edit, Add Note.

When taking notes, be sure to distinguish between your own thoughts and your sources' exact words. Citation provides two boxes in the Add Note dialog box: Comments for your thoughts and Excerpts for exact quotations from a source. Using this feature of Citation can help you avoid unintentional plagiarism!

See the Library's Plagiarism Tutorial (/tools/tutorials/plagiarism/) for more information on avoiding plagiarism.

As you're writing your paper, you can insert citations to sources you are quoting or paraphrasing.

With your paper open in your word-processing program, go to Tools, Citation. Citation will open in another window.

In Citation go to View, Short List. Highlight the source you want to cite and click on Cite.

When you've finished writing your paper, Citation will format your citations and add a bibliography to your paper.

In Citation, go to Generate, Citation for Document. Choose the proper style.

Once Citation has formatted your citations and inserted the bibliography, you will need to proofread. Watch especially for the formatting of multiple in-text citations and for quotation marks within quotations marks in article titles.

See the Library's MLA Style Guide (/tools/tutorials/mla/) or APA Style Guide (/tools/tutorials/apa/) for more information and formatting examples.