Electronic resources

WorldCat now offers Cite This Item -

Need to know how to cite a book but don’t have a style manual handy? Check out the new “Cite This Item” feature in WorldCat. Just go to WorldCat, type in the book title and other important information such as author, publisher, and year of publication. A list of books will appear. Make sure you pick the right title in terms of year and publisher (some books are published by more than one publisher and/or in several years). Then click on the “Cite This Item” link and you’ll see a list of how the book should be cited in APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard, and Turabian styles. Just copy and paste the appropriate style into your bibliography or reference list. Be sure to read the disclaimers at the end of the list.

Here is an example of how this works. I searched for the title “Finding George Orwell in Burma” and got the following result (click on the image to enlarge it). Note the “Cite This Item” link.

Then I clicked on the “Cite This Item” link and got the following screen (click on image below to enlarge it):