<p>Would anyone be kind enough to recommend a site for my high school freshman daughter who is doing her first research paper and doesn’t know how to cite the material she’s used? She’s done a good job with the paper and worked hard but has absolutely no idea how to prepare the bibliography and, frankly, neither do I. Older sister could help, but she’s not around too much these days. Anyone have a recommendation? Thank you!</p>
<p><a href=“http://citationmachine.net/[/url]”>http://citationmachine.net/</a></p>
<p>It got me through grad school!</p>
<p>Here’s an alternative: <a href=“http://lawreview.uchicago.edu/resources/docs/stylesheetv-74.pdf[/url]”>http://lawreview.uchicago.edu/resources/docs/stylesheetv-74.pdf</a></p>
<p>This is a cheat-sheet version of the Maroonbook, which is the University of Chicago Law School’s attempt to rationalize the standard legal citation manual published by the Harvard Law Review and known as the Blue Book. The Maroonbook has a pretty distinguished intellectual history: The project was instituted by Richard Posner (the leading conservative legal academic of his generation, then a federal appellate judge in Chicago, and a very impressive intellectual polymath), and its initial draftsperson was Doug Baird, a longtime Chicago bankruptcy scholar (and with whom I attended both college and law school, and whose law review office I inherited), and a very thoughtful (if somewhat anal) guy.</p>
<p>It’s also something of a compromise between traditional Blue Book legal citation style and social science citation style. The legal citation style is valuable because it actually provides more information, and the style manuals are more complete (and a lot more anal).</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.mcquaid.org/academics/Style_Sheet/Style_Sheet_index.shtml[/url]”>http://www.mcquaid.org/academics/Style_Sheet/Style_Sheet_index.shtml</a></p>
<p>Page 4 is the citation page.</p>
<p>The MLA Guide for Research Papers (noted at the bottom of weenie’s site) is THE Bible for citations. If you expect your kid to be doing research papers in college, go ahead and and pick up the current version. I’m not familiar w/ the legal and social science citation styles that JHS refers to. Most high schools and college English papers require the MLA style. BTW, it IS different than we used to do in the “olden days”, and it’s not necessarily intuitive, either.</p>
<p>^ Yeah. I couldn’t remember the name of the MLA thing! :)</p>
<p>this is the MLA version of the citation machine–pretty cool.</p>
<p><a href=“Citation Machine®: Format & Generate - APA, MLA, & Chicago”>Citation Machine®: Format & Generate - APA, MLA, & Chicago;
<p>If you search for MLA on Google, you will find several websites with MLA formats for all kinds of citations. There are formats for books, articles, websites, etc.</p>
<p>She might want to double check with the teacher what style citations they want. Our teachers often say “MLA style” or “Chicago style”.</p>
<p><a href=“Purdue OWL® - Purdue OWL® - Purdue University”>Purdue OWL® - Purdue OWL® - Purdue University;
<p>My high school teachers always sent us there- it’s essentially a short version of the MLA book, with examples. If she’s citing some odder things- for instance, the literary criticism volumes that have republished journal papers- it might be worth buying a MLA book because the details are usually not online; half price books usually has older editions for fairly cheap, and it is only the web citations that usually change.</p>