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Semester Break Hours:

December 14: Close at 5:00 pm
December 15-16: Closed
December 17-21: 8:00 am - 5:00 pm
December 22 - January 1: Closed
January 2-4: 8:00 am - 5:00 pm
January 5-6: Closed
January 7: 8:00 am - 5:00 pm
January 8: Resume regular hours

Don't Forget . . .

Before you leave for Christmas break, don't forget to return your library books that are due.

View Your Library Account

If you have any questions, please stop by the Circulation desk in the library.

Citing Sources

"How do I cite my sources?" – is one of the most common questions asked at the reference desk this time of year.  The Centennial Library Citing Sources page provides answers.

The Centennial Library guides were created by the Reference librarians to help you cite both print and electronic library resources in two of the most common styles: APA and MLA. 

The SourceAid Citation Builder will create bibliographies, footnotes, and endnotes in four different styles, APA, MLA, Chicago, and Council of Science Editors.  In order to use SourceAid you must create a login using a Cedarville email address.  After this, a few menu driven steps provides a properly formatted citation.  Citations may be saved, downloaded and emailed; however, they will be listed in the order of entry, not alphabetically.  SourceAid is a great resource for quickly formatting resources for a small bibliography.

RefWorks is our most thorough citation tool as it is an information management resource that is ideal for those involved in research.   RefWorks organizes citations and resources, creates a personal database of references by importing references from online databases, and provides options for exporting and downloading the database.  Notes, abstracts, and other enhancements make this database truly personal.  The RefWorks database is searchable (author, title, keyword, etc.) and links to the library holdings are available via the Find It! button, just like other library databases.  As a paper is written, the Write-N-Cite software allows the writer to pull citations from the personal database directly into the paper.  RefWorks will then format the research paper to include those citations and properly format the bibliography for printing.  The new Write-N-Cite III software has been developed for Word 2007.

Two RefWorks workshops for students have been scheduled for January 22 and 23.  If you will be working on research projects or papers this spring, please sign up and attend one of these 90-minute workshops.  Registration is available on the RefWorks page.

Merry Christmas from the
Centennial Library!


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