Citation Machine and Easybib

Citation Machine and Easybib are free, online citation generators. By simply filling in the information, such as author, title, copyright date, publisher, and city of publication, they will create properly formatted citations for you. Citation Machine is available at http://citationmachine.net/ and Easybib is available at http://www.easybib.com/ . Be sure to click on “MLA 7” style and then follow the directions.

The following examples will help guide you in creating your own citations.

Print Sources: Books, Magazines, Journals Book, single author Hellman, Hal. Great Feuds in Medicine: Ten of the Liveliest Disputes

Ever. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2001. Print.

Book, two or three authors

McNab, David, and James Younger. The Planets. London: Yale

University Press, 1999. Print.

Book, four or more authors

Hine, Darlene Clark, et al. Black Women in America: An Historical

Encyclopedia. Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1993.

Print. Book by corporate author or group

American Medical Association. American Medical Association Handbook

of First Aid and Emergency Care. New York: Random House,

2005. Print

Encyclopedia article, no author

Place quotation marks around the article title and underline the encyclopedia title. When citing a very familiar encyclopedia, like World Book, do not give the full publication information. You only need to include the year published and the edition number, if provided.

“Dinosaur.” World Book Encyclopedia. 7th . 2007. Print

Encyclopedia article with author

Peterson, Barbara Bennett. “Rita Hayworth.” The Scribner

Encyclopedia of American Lives. 3rd. New York: Charles

Scribner’s Sons, 1999. Print

Magazines and Newspapers (in print)

General Rules 1. Give the author’s name just as you do for books. 2. The title of the article is placed in quotation marks with a period at the end of the title. 3. The magazine title is underlined followed by the date. 4. Provide the complete date beginning with the day and abbreviating the month, followed by a colon and the page numbers of the article.

Magazine Article: Beschloss, Michael. “The Ford Effect.” Newsweek 8 Jan 2007: 30-33.

Newspaper Article: Farmer, Paul. “A Family Affair.” Daily Republic 19 Dec 2006: D1. Print Online Resources: Subscription Databases and Websites Online Databases (EBSCO, etc.)

General Rules 1. These citations work very much like print citations. Most of the articles you will find in EBSCO are simply reproduced from print resources and placed online. 2. You must include the article title in quotes, the title of the database underlined, the date the article was published (if available), and the date you accessed the information The web address (url), is optional. Examples From InfoTrac Biography Resource:

“A. A. Milne.” Contemporary Authors Online. 2007. Reproduced in

Biography Resource Center. Web. 5 Jan 2007

From World Book Online:

Hartman, John. "Argentina." World Book Online Reference Center.

2007. Web. 12 Feb 2007

From EBSCO:

“Anorexia, Bullimia Prove Gene Related.” USA Today Magazine Oct

2006. EBSCOHost Student Research Center. 26 Jan 2006 Web.

http://search.ebscohost.com/ login.aspx?

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