Research Guides: BUSM 3001 Managing Innovations: Citing Your Sources

Zotero: Reference Management Tool

Zotero
Zotero is one of our favorite free tools for managing citations. This open source free tool will save your citations, along with the full text of articles, web pages, etc. It will also create the citations in APA Style for you in Word. If you use Chrome or Safari, you will need to download Zotero Standalone as well as the appropriate extension. We are also happy to help you set it up, feel free to ask any of the library staff.
Zotero Video Tutorials
Check out these videos showing the tool and how easy it is to set up.

How to Cite an Article

The purpose of any citation is so that the reader can find the sources you used. In the reference list or bibliography section of your paper, the general format for citing an article is this:

Author, A. A., Author, B. B., & Author, C. C. (Year). Title of article.Title of Journal, volume number(issue number), pages. http://dx.doi.org/xx.xxx/yyyyy

Include the author(s), publication date, article title, journal title, volume and issue numbers (if applicable), and page numbers. If available, include the DOI (Digital Object Identifier) or permanent link to the article.