English and American Literature and Language: Resources for Graduate Students

RefWorks and EndNote are bibliographic software resources, licensed for Harvard users. They allow you to create databases of references, annotations, texts, etc., and to format these references in a wide range of styles, to generate references and works cited lists. Endnote, RefWorks and Zotero are all included in a very helpful guide for Harvard users.

EndNote is keyserved software available to download from FAS Information Technology. Its features are similar to those of RefWorks, though the two differ in some capacities. Comparison of the two is included in the guide to RefWorks, above.

Useful websites

Purdue Online Writing Lab. MLA Formatting and Style Guide

Sources for citation, style, and documentation

The Chicago manual of style.

MLA style manual and guide to scholarly publishing. 3nd ed. New York:Modern Language Association of America, 2008.

MLA Handbook for writers of research papers. 7th ed. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2009.