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Reference & Instruction Librarian
Office: LL115
Phone: 717-477-1123 ext. 3312
Email: dlcook@ship.edu

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Reference Librarian
Office: Reference Desk
Phone: 717-477-1474
Email: librarian@ship.edu
AIM: ShipLibrary

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Citation Formatting

Quick Guides by Dr. Cook

Online Citation Tools

These programs allow you to electronically format your sources and create a bibliography that can be downloaded directly into your paper.

Source Aid

SourceAid’s Citation Builder formats your bibliography in MLA, APA, CMS & CSE styles. You can also save your work for later editing or addition.

Citation Machine

Citation Machine generates works cited entries in MLA and APA formats which are able to be copied and pasted into a word document.

RefWorks

We subscribe to this service! RefWorks is a web-based bibliographic software package that enables you to:

  • Organize your research
  • Include citations while you write your paper
  • Build a bibliography in a variety of style formats (MLA, APA, Chicago)
  • Import references from many data sources (Databases, Catalog
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SOC386 - Data Collection and Analysis - Dr. Drenovsky

The following can also be accessed from the Library's web page - Choose "Find Articles" then "In Databases"

1. Scholarly Articles - If you don't find full text of the article, choose "Check Availability" to order it via ILLIAD [inter library loan]

  •  SocINDEX with Full Text  -An extensive database to scholarly publications in sociology, social work, and related fields, indexing over 1 million academic periodical articles and other materials (40% in full text). Deep coverage back to the 1960s and as far back as 1882.
  •  Sociological Collection  - A full-text database to 500+ sociology journals. Almost 90% of the database is available in full-text and almost all journals are peer reviewed. Most coverage is from 1985 to the present.

2. Other Article Resources

  • Education Research Complete - Covers all aspects of the field of Education, including colleges and universities. Contains abstracts and full text of journal articles and other research materials
  • ERIC - Covers the field of Education, including colleges and universities. Most recent materials include the full text.  Contains more than 1 million items including journal articles, unpublished documents, research reports, curricular materials, etc.
  • Academic Search Complete  - Our main, full text database of journal and magazine articles in the natural sciences, social sciences, humanities, business and eduation. 50% of the articles are available immediately in electronic form.
  •  Other subject databases - You may need to check our other subject databases such as,  PsycARTICLES,  etc.
  •  JSTOR  - provides access to an online archive for 700+ full text scholarly journals throughout the arts and sciences. It includes online backfiles which extend from the first issue to within 3-5 years of the current issue

3. Books - Search first in WorldCat. When you know that a book exists, then see if Ship has it or if it is available in EZ-Borrow

  •  WorldCat.org  - This is the mother of all library databases. If a book has been published it's in here. WorldCat now indicates if Ship has the book you found. 
  •  Ship catalog  - Books in Ship Library
  •  EZ-Borrow [PALCI]  - a cooperative catalog for borrowing books from 50+ academic libraries in Pennsylvania and the region, including Penn State and the University of Pennsylvania libraries.

4. Other Useful Services