Research Guides: AFS254: Race, Identity, and the Global City: Anthropology of the African Diaspora: Evaluating and Citing Sources

RefWorks

RefWorks is a web-based software that helps researchers gather, manage, store, and generate citations and bibliographies.

Citation Guides & Style Manuals
Smith Libraries guide links to online versions of MLA, Chicago, and other popular manuals for writing papers and formatting footnote and bibliography citations. Includes a section on how to cite images.
Citing Sources (Duke University)
Guides for Turabian, Chicago Manual of Style, MLA, and APA

Evaluating Resources
University of California Berkeley Library.
Evaluating Internet Resources
Johns Hopkins University Libraries
Critically Analyzing Information Sources
Cornell University Librarary 2016.
Focuses primarily on "traditional" scholarly sources.
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Clear guidance on how to assess publications based on the author, publication date, edition, publisher, journal title and aspects of the content such as intended audience, coverage, writing style, and evaluative reviews.
Using Primary Sources on the Web (RUSA)
Evaluating Primary Source Websites