Tools for Creating Bibliography

I. Definition of Bibliography

BIIBLIOGRAPHY
- An orderly list of resources on a particular subject
- Derived from the Greek words “Biblion” means book and “Graphein” which means to write
or the writing of books
- It is the name given to a list of books, manuscripts and other publications, systematically
described and organize, which have some relationship to each other.

II. Purposes of Bibliography

1. To identify and verify information

2. To locate materials
3. To select materials for the collection
4. To give credits to authors whose work you’ve consulted in your research

III. Different Tools Used in Creating Bibliography

1. Bibme
- The ultimate automatic bibliography maker with auto-fill. All you have to do is search for a
book, website, or article or film, or fill in the information yourself.
- Automatic citation creator that supports MLA, APA, and Chicago formatting.

2. Citation Machine
- It can help in 4 major styles namely APA, MLA, Chicago and Turbian
- it also checks for unintentional plagiarism
- it allows you to cite content from books, magazine, newspapers, journals, film and etc.

3. Citavi

- multi-purpose free online bibliography and citation tool, It is also a reference manager and
task management platform.

- from importing sources, referencing them properly and then exporting them to managing
content and allocating task in a team

4. Citefast

- offers all major functions of a good free online bibliography

- 3 citation styles: APA, MLA and Chicago

- automatic look up for journals, books, and web pagers

- ability to change at anytime from APA to MLA or Chicago

5. Citelighter

-an award-winning multi-purpose free online bibliography and citation tool that also function as
a writing aid tool
 - it will generate your bibliographies automatically

6. Zotero

- is free, easy to use, open source, tool to help you collect, organize cite and share your
research sources

7. Easybib

- constitute a functional way for people wanting to reference various types of content both
digital and print

- scan your paper for plagiarism error and missing citation

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