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Where can I find the citation?

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Once upon a time...

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Students could actually memorize the various citation formats they needed to use in their works cited lists,

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because, once upon a time, they didn't have to cite sources like

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a website,

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an article from an online database,

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a blog posting, a tweet,

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or an audio podcast.

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Once upon a time...

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Students turned to style guides, such as

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The MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers

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or Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association,

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to help them create these citations.

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Style guides are still indispensable, of course,

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but now students can often take a shortcut

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by using the citation tools built into research databases,

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such as Academic Search Premier or Academic Onefile.

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These research databases offer a feature that allows students to generation citations

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for the sources they discover inside these databases.

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From there, all the student has to do

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is copy and paste them into a works cited list.

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To be on the safe side, however,

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students should double-check preformatted citations with an official style guide.

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I want use this website

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as a source for my research paper,

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but I can't find the citation.

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That's because are working with a website you have found on the open web,

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not a source from a research database, such as Academic Onefile.

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The websites you track down using Google or Yahoo

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are not going to come with preformatted citations.

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You will need to create them for yourself.

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However, if you use a research database,

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such as Academic Onefile,

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there is a good chance it will come with a citation tool that will save you a lot of time.

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But my teacher really wants me to use this website.

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I found it on Google.

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Then you will need to format the citation on your own.

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You will need to go over your style guide to figure which elements to include in your citation.

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For example, here's a website.

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I'm going to turn to this online cheat sheet to look for guidelines on how to format the citation.

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That sounds like a lot of work.

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College researchers have always had to format their own citations

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for books and print and articles by following a specific style guide.

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Now they also need to think about citations for content from the open web,

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as well books and articles in research databases.

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Again, most databases offer citation tools to make it easier for students to cite their sources.

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Yet if you find a website through Google or Yahoo,

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you are on your own.