GEOG 495 - Capstone Seminar in Geography

This guide provides information about databases and journals to aid students enrolled in GEOG 495 locate relevant research materials.

Library Research Guide

Citation: A (Very) Brief Introduction

Cite Your Sources

There are many writing style guides for citing resources. Depending on the journal, geography research is published using different style guides. The Annals of the Association of American Geographers uses the Chicago (B) author-date style.

Here are some helpful links that show you how to cite different formats of information you'll find while researching:

Style Sheet from Annals of the AAG publisher, Taylor and Francis
Twenty-page document about Chicago (B) author-date style from the publisher of the Annals of the American Association of Geographers.
Chicago Manual of Style: Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL)
This guide includes information about Chicago style and citations.
Chicago Manual of Style: Q & A
View questions from users answered by the Chicago Manual of Style manuscript editing department. You can also submit your own questions.

Citation Management

A citation manager helps you

collect, store, and share citations;
insert in-text citations when writing a paper; and
create a bibliography using a variety of citation styles.

Zotero
Zotero is a free, web-based citation management tool.
Zotero Help from K-State Libraries
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Zotero also has a plugins for Firefox, Chrome, and Safari that help you get citation information directly from a webpage. Read this quick start guide to install Zotero and get an overview of how it works.