LANG 1406 Academic English for Business Studies

Do you know? Nowadays, you can use different tools to generate citations instead of starting from scratch with the source on your hand.

Watch the video below to learn how to generate citations from HKUST PowerSearch (2 min 57 sec)

Other free online tools to help create citations in different formats:

• Zbib (really simple!)
• Citation Machine
• Citethisforme

Reference management software

• let you create your own database of the references you collect while searching the literature
• has a plug-in to automatically format the citations in a Word, and produce a list of references at the end of the document formatted in the style of your choice (e.g. APA, IEEE, MLA). 
• share your references with your teammates or collaborators

Some free reference management software include:

• Zotero (Library Guide)
• Mendeley
• EndNote Basic