Wednesday, 27 June 2012

Nice citation app

In an attempt to practice what I preach, I have been trying to use some non-internet sources for another question in the first assignment where we have to compare several routing protocols.

I popped into the library at Glyndwr University to look at some books and was able to use a rather nifty Android app that I had downloaded the previous day. It's called CiteThis and it allows you to scan the barcode on the back of a book. It then searches the internet to find the details of the book and prepares a correctly formatted citation for you. You can organise citations into folders which is great for multiple assignments. You can then email the list of citations to yourself!

We have to use Harvard referencing but the app will also handle Chicago, APA, AMA & MLA (whatever they are...). I am not sure that the formatting is 100% what the OU want but it will be close enough that I will be able to tweak it easily.

For the princely sum of £0.64 I am well pleased!

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