SOWO 510: Foundations for Evidence-Based Practice & Program Evaluation: Citing and Writing
The Writing Center
The Writing Center offers writing assistance to students, faculty, and staff. You can schedule an appointment with a writing coach, submit a paper draft for feedback, or participate in a group or workshop for English language learners.
Citation Management
Citation managers help you collect, organize, share, and cite research materials. UNC Libraries offers support for 3 citation management programs: Zotero, SciWheel, and EndNote.
Citation mangers can:
- Help you organize and keep track of references for your classes and research projects
- Automatically format in-text citations for your papers in Word or Google Docs
- Automatically generate bibliographies for your papers in Word or Google Docs
- Format references in thousands of citation styles
- Store and organize full text PDFs with highlighting and sticky note features
- Store and organize copies of webpages
- Collect references and/or PDFs from your browser as you search
- Allow for team collaboration in groups
- Export references and transfer them to other citation management programs
- Provide access to your references on a desktop application, internet browser, or mobile app
- Search for full-text PDFs
The Libraries offer free introductory classes on these programs. Visit our Upcoming Events page to view what's happening virtually and in person.
Zotero
Zotero is a free and open-source citation management system. If you're not sure which citation manager to choose, start with Zotero -- you can transfer your references to another citation manager at any time, and you won't lose access to it after you leave UNC.
ZoteroBib (zbib) is a free service from Zotero to help you generate citations. Just enter the DOI, URL, or title, and zbib will do the rest.