Citing Sources / Create your Bibliography (UofT Libraries Guide)

• This UofT guide includes links to many helpful online tutorials, style guides, and related documents to help you understand citation practice, and build correct citations for your bibliography.
• Explore citation generators or citation managers to format the sources in your bibliography 
  •  Always DOUBLE CHECK your citations  -- Be aware these tools are not perfect and you are responsible for double checking your in-text citations and bibliographies are accurately formatted. The following Online Writing Labs are good sources for up-to-date citation information. 

Citation Style Guides 

Writing at the University of Toronto Advice

• Best Practices on Using Sources: How Not to Plagiarize, Standard Documentation Formats,  Using Quotations, Paraphrase and Summary
• Student PDFs: Developing Coherent Paragraphs, Summarizing, Verbs for Referring to Sources, Wordiness: Danger Signals and Ways to React

Citation managers can help you:  

• collect the citation information for books, articles, websites, and more 
• automatically format in-text citations and bibliographies
• save the citation information, PDFs and notes in the cloud
• organize the research materials in folders or share folders with others

More info can be found in UofT Libraries Citation Management Guide (includes Mendeley) or this comparison chart of reference management software on Wikipedia for even more suggestions.

Book Writing Centre Appointments

• Are you an Innis College Student? Enrolled in Innis College courses (InnisONE, Urban Studies, Writing & Rhetoric) or Cinema Studies Institute courses? Book an appointment for writing help at Innis College Writing Centre
• Belong to another College? Book an appointment with your College Writing Centre

Writing Workshops 

• Writing Plus Workshops: Explore these campus-wide series of academic skills workshops to the University’s entire student body over the school year. All workshops are free.

Explore Writing.Utoronto.ca

• Advice & Handouts on Academic Writing: The advice files on this site answer the kinds of questions that University of Toronto students ask about their written assignments. Most were created by writing instructors here—people who are familiar with U of T expectations.
• Books on Academic Writing: A selective list of books that will show you how academic writing works and how to engage in it. Many focus on the writing done in particular subject areas.