bibme.org – a free automatic bibliography maker
OK, so I know as educators, our students need to be able to write a proper citation without using an automatic bibliography maker, but how great is this? Bibme.org is a fantastic web 2.0 site that will create these citations for you. What makes the site great is its ease of use. Let’s use an article from a newspaper website, The Buffalo News. In today’s edition there is an article about snowfall and Christmas Day. All I need to do at bibme.org is enter the headline of the story and click Find Article. The result is as follows:
After clicking select, bibme.org will automatically fill in any information it can find on the article including Date Published, Section, Edition and so on. I then add it to “My Bibliographies” and bibme.org will create my citation in any one of 4 formats (MLA, APA, Chicago, or Turabian.) I can then save my citation to a file or simply copy and paste the text to my document.
This is a fantastic service and is available, not only for online newspaper articles, but also books, magazines, websites, journals, and films. A great time saver! Thanks to the folks at bibme.org.
Have you used bibme.org? Let me know how you used it, post a comment! Also, if you know of any other great sites to help with citations and bibliographies, please share!
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Hi I’m Rachel from Lake Asbury Elementary i need to write a bibliography by TONIGHT (nov. 17 2008) but im not exactly sure how to use bibme.org so if you could tell me that would be great
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh! This is so confusing!!!!!
this site is much more easy at my school
Try using EasyBib.com. They have over 55 different source types and allow you to cite sources in a variety of mediums.
Give WizFolio a try. WizFolio is a web 2.0 bibliographic management tool with Word 2003/2007 plugin that allows you to cite your citations. With WizAdd you can almost easily import anything off the internet in cite-able format using our powerful parsers. We will be releasing a citation tool for Google Docs and Open Office in June 2010. Do let us know about your comments at techsupport@wizfolio.com