Author: Holly Frilot

Cite Your Sources the EasyBib Way!

1. Go to www.easybib.com while here at PHS. Click Register to create an account using your email address and a password you create. Now you will have access to all the premium services anywhere.

2. Click Create a new project and give your project a name. In most cases, select MLA 7

3. Click Bibliography under your new project title. Then click the tab for the type of source you need to cite. You can paste in the URL or book title and click Autocite, or choose Manual Entry.

4. If you chose Autocite, some of the form may be filled out already. Review the information to make sure it’s correct, and enter any additional information required. Once you click the Create Citation button at the bottom of the form, your citation will be formatted correctly and saved as part of your bibliography.

5. That’s it! Add more sources as you need. When you are done, you can Print as a Word doc and all your formatting will be correct. If you want to take notes, click the Notebook tab at the top of the page.
*IMPORTANT: If you use the county databases (which you should!), then you can just copy and paste the already formatted Works Cited entry from the databases into Easy Bib. Just click on “All 59 Options” and then you will see an option on the left hand side that says “Write/Paste citation” and just paste the citation in the box and change the formatting as needed (italics, etc).

See directions on the back for how to use the notebook feature.

Stay Organized with EasyBib’s Online Notecards

Give your note a title so you remember what it is later

Put your fact here that you take word for word from this source. Don’t forget to include your citation at the end of your fact! Example of citing using source above: (Winter).

Put your fact here that you find from thissource and put in your own words. Don’t forget to cite!

Here you will put your analysis of the fact that you found. How does this support your thesis?

Sort of like a hashtag– helps you organize and search

This is what your online notecard looks like. You can give your notecard a title, paste quotations (choose between using a quote or a paraphrase for your concrete detail– you should have a mix of both quotations and paraphrases in your paper), write your comments/thoughts/analysis on your quotes, group your notes, and more. Don’t forget to include your parenthetical citations. Go back to the Bibliography tab and click on the “parenthetical” button under each source to help you remember how to cite each source. Note: Sources will not appear on the drop-down tab of the card until you have inputted them in your bibliography.
You can stay organized by connecting this note to a source you’ve already cited and adding tags (topics the notecard covers). You even have the option of color coding it!

Once you’ve saved your notecard, it will appear on your virtual desktop (screenshot below). Here you can move and group your notes. You can also create an outline for your paper by dragging your notecards into the outline on the right side of the screen. You can print your notes and outline when you are finished.