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INI106: Writing Literary Journalism

This guide support InnisONE Creative in the City program's course INI106 Writing Literary Journalism: Telling the Stories of the City

Citation Style

Online Writing Lab (OWL) at Purdue University

Citing Sources / Create your Bibliography (UofT Libraries Guide)

  • The 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.

Writing at the University of Toronto Advice

  • 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

Citing Images

Even if an image is free to use, be sure to follow these Best Practices for Attribution and give credit to the individuals who created the images. 

 

APA Style guide for Tables and Figures / Images

  • Scroll down to "Images and Photographs" heading

Citation Managers can Help Cite your Sources

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.

CITATION MANAGER WORD PROCESSOR / SOFTWARE SET UP  ONLINE GUIDES

Zotero (free)

www.zotero.org

 

Word 

Google Docs

 

Register for Zotero Account (free with storage limit) 

Download software for computers  

(Shut down MS Word before opening file)

Zotero Mobile Apps

LOGIN - Zotero web interface 

UofT Libraries Zotero Guide 

Zotero Quick Start Guide 

Zotero Help Documentation

ProQuest RefWorks

(Free, UofT)

 

Word

Google Docs

Register for Refworks account 

Free with your utoronto.ca email

Avoid using the older version of RefWorks (orange logo). 

LOGIN - Refworks 

RefWorks Get Started Guide 

RefWorks Quick Start Guide

EndNoteOnline Basic (free)

 

Word 

Google Docs

Register for free EndNoteOnline Basic account

Download Cite While You Write plugin

LOGIN EndNoteOnline Basic  

EndNote Online Libguide

UofT EndNote Online Guide

EndNoteOnline Premium ($$)

Word

Pages 

Google Docs

EndNote Software - UofT Bookstore

EndNoteOnline Premium (30 Day Trial)  

EndNote Training (videos, modules, handouts and more)