Bedford Bibliographer: A Free Online Service from Author of The Bedford Handbook
If you click on the link from the library homepage for citing resources, you will find many tools and pages that will help you to create a bibliography for your latest research paper. One of the links near the top of the page is for the Bedford Bibliographer.
The website tells us:
This easy-to-use Web-based application from the author of The Bedford Researcher assists students with the process of collecting sources, and generates bibliographies in MLA, APA, CSE, and Chicago Styles. Using the Bedford Bibliographer, students create virtual source cards on which they can record bibliographic information, write annotations, evaluate sources, and even save text from electronic sources…
To use the Bedford Bibliographer, you will need to create an account. It’s free and asks for your email address and name. Then you create your own password.
Once you have signed up, you will be prompted to start a new project. Title the project and select the citation style you need.
Once you have selected the type of material you will be citing, you will see a page with blank boxes. Each box asks for the information needed such as the title of an article or the first name of the author. If you do not have the information, you leave that box blank. To the right of some boxes, you will also find some hints about how to capitalize words or what type of information is needed.
When you finish filling in the boxes, click save and then close and your citation will be displayed. It is easy to return to a completed citation by clicking the edit button. You can add as many citations as you need for your paper and the citations will automatically be displayed alphabetically by author. It is very easy to cut and paste each citation into your paper.
Other tabs within each record will allow you to annotate the source for an annotated bibliography, save evaluation notes, and paste the important parts of the text of the item into a box to save so you can use it when it comes time to write your paper. All will SAVE YOU TIME and some of the aggravation of trying to figure out those MLA citation formats! Good Luck on your papers!