Library Guides: Distance Learners: Research Tools

Research Tools

Many tools exist to support research, especially as it relates to citation and plagiarism tools.

The MU Libraries has workshops and recordings of workshops that explain how to use some of these resources. You can find them on our Recordings and Tutorials tab.

For more information about the libraries citation tools, see our Citation Guide.

This page shares information about:

Citation style guides
Citation tools and software
Plugins and extensions

Research Tools

Major Citation Styles
A guide produced by Boston College Libraries to citing in APA, MLA, Chiacgo, Turabian, speciality, and legal styles.

Citation help:

Citation styles:

Citation managers:

Google Scholar Button
Google Scholar Button has three primary features for literature search (watch the video tutorial to see examples). You can highlight the article title to search Google Scholar, pick up article detail on a journal article page or any well-formatted pages related a specific journal article, and format and export citations

Cited Reference Searching

Cited references are the articles, books or other materials listed in a bibliography or as works cited in a particular publication. Because citation databases index each reference, it is possible to search these cited references. One can follow a particular cited reference, or cited author, forward in time to find more current articles that have also cited that author or work.

Use our guide on Cited Reference Searching to learn more.