Step 5: Manage Your Results
After analyzing the material and determining what information and sources you want to use, it's important to keep track of what you have looked through. Keep a list of the following:
- What searches you have completed
- Which ones were successful and unsuccessful
- What databases you used
- What sources you want to use for your literature review
- What else you may want to search for next
TMU Citation Guides
- Citation Guide (APA and Other Styles)This is a complete guide on how to cite using different citation styles, such as APA, MLA, Chicago, IEEE, Vancouver Style, and more.
- Mendeley - Managing Your SourcesMendeley is a free* reference manager and academic social network. Make your own fully-searchable library in seconds, cite as you write, and read and annotate your PDFs on any device.
- Zoterto - Managing Your Sources[zoh-TAIR-oh] is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share your research sources. Zotero is the only research tool that automatically senses content in your web browser, allowing you to add journal articles, websites and books from the TMU Library catalogiue with a single click.
Books and EBooks
The Chicago Manual of Style by ISBN: 9780226287058Publication Date: 2017-09-05This seventeenth edition of The Chicago Manual of Style has been prepared with an eye toward how we find, create, and cite information that readers are as likely to access from their pockets as from a bookshelf.
MLA Handbook by ISBN: 9781603292627Publication Date: 2016-04-01Shorter and redesigned for easy use, the eighth edition of the MLA Handbook guides writers through the principles behind evaluating sources for their research. It then shows them how to cite sources in their writing and create useful entries for the works-cited list. More than just a new edition, this is a new MLA style.
Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association by ISBN: 9781433805615Publication Date: 2010-01-01The Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association is the style manual of choice for writers, editors, students, and educators in the social and behavioural sciences. It provides invaluable guidance on all aspects of the writing process, from the ethics of authorship to the word choice that best reduces bias in language.
Using Sources Effectively by ISBN: 9781351971935Publication Date: 2017-01-20Now in its fifth, expanded edition, Using Sources Effectively, Fifth Edition targets the two most prominent problems in current research-paper writing: the increase in unintentional plagiarism and the ineffective use of research source material. Designed as a supplementary textbook for both undergraduate and graduate courses, this book will help every student who uses research in writing.
Internet Resources
- Chicago Manual of Style Online / University of Chicago PressThe tools presented here by the University of Chicago Press are intended to help authors prepare manuscripts for submission to our press. They will also be of use to writers, editors, and publishers at other organizations who are looking for models for procedure and content. Tools include: Examples of Chicago-Style documentation, manuscript preparation, sample correspondence, proofreading, and process charts.
- Manage Citations
Wilfrid Laurier University / Academic writing requires you to properly cite all sources. In-text citations and bibliographies can be complicated, but the library can help. - Research and Citation Resources
Purdue University Online Writing Lab (OWL)
