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Criminology and Criminal Justice: Citation Help

This guide presents resources and tools for researching in the field of Criminal Justice.

Quick Cite

Need a quick citation?  Both Google Scholar and our databases provide quick and easy tools for citations.

Google Scholar.  Once you have located the resource, click on the cite link (single set of quotations) below the entry for MLA, APA, or Chicago style citations.

EBSCO Databases. Once you have located the resource, use the Cite tool, located on the right side of the screen, for MLA, APA, Chicago, and other styles.

Gale Databases. Once you have located the resource, use the Cite tool, located to the right of the article, for MLA, APA, or Chicago style citations.

ProQuest Databases. Once you have located the resource, click on the Cite link (single set of quotations), located on the right side of the screen, for MLA, APA, Chicago, and other styles.

Worldcat.  Primarily covers book and journal title records.   However, it does provide a cite/export button that allows you to generate APA, Chicago, Harvard, MLA, and Turabian citations.

Online Citation Help

Creating Citations and Bibliographies

Citing References In Your Paper (University of Wisconsin-Madison Writing Center)

Annotated Bibliographies (Purdue Online Writing Center)

How to Prepare an Annotated Bibliography(Cornell)

Parts of a Citation: MLA and APA

 

APA

When creating and compiling citations, make sure you know:

Parts of a citation for a book:

 

Parts of a citation for a journal article:

***According to the seventh edition of the APA manual, when available, you should include the DOI (digital object identifier) for print and electronic sources in the reference entry. The DOI number is placed at the end of the entry without ending punctuation:***

Author, A. A., & Author, B. B. (Date of publication). Title of article. Title of Journal, volume number(Issue Number), Page(s). https://doi.org/###############

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Parts of a citations for sources found on the web:

For APA 7, "Retrieved from" does not need to be in the citation.

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 MLA

When creating and compiling citations, make sure you know:

Parts of a citation for a book:

 
Parts of a citation for a journal article:
 
                                                                                                                                                                                          
 
Parts of a citations for sources found on the web:
 

 

Citation Styles

Citation Help

Need help with citations or writing your paper?  The Writing Center is the place for you!

The Writing Center
Room 229 in the LARC
(636) 949-4870
writingcenter@lindenwood.edu
Please use our online scheduler to set up an appointment with a writing tutor

Laura Reilly
Writing Center in LARC
(636) 627-2913
lreilly@lindenwood.edu

Casey Freeman
Writing Center in LARC
cfreeman@lindenwood.edu

 

Citation Management and Generator Tools

BibMe : Generated APA, Chicago, MLA, or Turabian. 

KnightCite Citation Creation Tool : This site generates citations in APA, MLA, and Chicago citation styles. Courtesy of the Calvin College Heckman Library. 

Landmarks Citation Machine : Handles APA, Chicago, MLA, and Turabian citations. 

North Carolina State's Citation Builder : Generated citations for both APA and MLA.

Mendeley : A free citation management Tool. 

Zotero : An add-on for the Firefox browser: helps collect, manage, and cite research sources.