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Citation Management Tools: BibMe

Find the best citation management tool based on your particular research needs.

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Get started using BibMe, which allows you to look up a particular book, magazine, newspaper, website, journal, or film by using a slick auto-complete search function. Once you've compiled your citations, you can download the RTF file for use in a word processing program or create a free personal account in order to save your bibliographies for later. Since BibMe is web-based, you do not have to download any software in order to use the application.

Tutorial

To get started with BibMe, search books, magazines, newspapers, websites, journals, films, etc. Click the Select button to add the item to your bibliography:

BibMe - find a book search


Check the accuracy of the citation, make changes as necessary, and click the Add to my Bibliography button:

BibMe - add item to bibliography


In order to make changes to the citation, click the Pencil icon:

BibMe - edit citation


Select the desired citation style (MLA, APA, Chicago, Turabian) and click either Download or Save to Account in order to generate your bibliography.