Library Guides: Distance Learners: Research Tools

Learn about the tools and resources available to help you with your citations. For more information, you may visit the Libraries' citation guide. Also, don't forget to check out the plugins and extensions for further tools to streamline the research process.

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:

Download EndNote
Students may obtain EndNote free of charge via Myservices. Having trouble with the download? Call DoIT @ (573)882-2000
Download Mendeley (free)
Download Zotero (free)

LibX plugin
LibX is a FireFox/Chrome plugin that provides users with direct access to library resources while doing research on the web. Practical implications: LibX makes access to library resources immediate and effortless.
Google Scholar Button
oogle 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.