HIST 4893: History of Reading in Early America

Managing the Research Process

You've found all these great sources, now what?

Whether you use note cards, color-coded binders, stacks of photocopies, or bookmarks made from licorice whips (please don't), having a strategy to stay on top of your research will help your project stay on track.

The Libraries offer several aids for managing your references, be they a few or a few hundred.

Handbooks and Guides

Style Manuals

The Long Haul: Citation Managers

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Citation Managers allow you to create a personal database of references you have collected, to orgranize and annotate those references, and then to generate reference lists and bibliographies, footnotes, and endnotes in specific citation formats.