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Chicago Style Guides on the Web

These online guides provide all the information you'll need to correctly format your papers in Chicago Style.

Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL): Chicago Style
Maintained by Purdue University, this comprehensive website provides rules and examples for formatting citations and bibliographic entries according to Chicago style.

Use these free online tools to automatically generate citations for your Works Cited, References, and Bibliography pages.

Interactive Practice Template
Use this official interactive template from MLA to create works-cited-list entries in MLA style.
Citation Machine
A Chegg product. This generator creates citations for APA, MLA, Chicago, and other styles.
EasyBib
Register for a free EasyBib account. MLA 8 is the only citation style available. (NOTE: Be sure to double-check the citation to ensure it's formatted properly.)

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The Library and the Writing Center can both help with formatting citations.
Mendeley
A free reference manager and an academic social network. Includes a web browser plug-in to quickly add research results directly from your search.
Zotero
A free easy-to-use research tool that helps you gather, organize, and analyze sources and then share the results of your research.

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Automatically senses content in your web browser, allowing you to add it to your personal library with a single click. collects all your research in a single, searchable interface. You can add PDFs, images, audio and video files, snapshots of web pages, and really anything else. Zotero automatically indexes the full-text content of your library, enabling you to find exactly what you're looking for with just a few keystrokes.
Cite This For Me
A free citation generation site.
RefWorks
Create an account with your NWACC email account to access a full suite of reference management software.