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Citation & Writing Resources

The Mason Writing Center offers free writing support to Mason students, faculty, and staff. Accomplished graduate and undergraduate students provide our consulting services and deliver our workshops. They work with writers through all stages of the writing process from brainstorming and organizing to revising and polishing. Sessions are offered in person and online.

Schedule a Writing Center appointment
Use the easy online scheduler to make an appointment or upload your draft.
Mason Writing Center workshops
Five to six workshops are offered to the George Mason University community each term on topics ranging from getting started on a draft to personal statements for graduate school applications.

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Zotero
Use Zotero to generate accurate citations and quick bibliographies. It's a free software developed here at George Mason University and now used globally!

Do you need a specialized citation style beyond APA, Chicago, or MLA? Check out Zotero's Style Repository for other formats.

Mason Libraries provides workshops to get you started using Zotero. Check the workshop calendar for times and locations.

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Mendeley
Use Mendeley to generate accurate citations and quick bibliographies. This software has a limited free edition or comes with features with a subscription through Elsevier.

Do you need a specialized citation style beyond APA, Chicago, or MLA? Check out Mendeley's Style Repository for other formats.

Online Writing Lab (OWL), Purdue University
Find APA and MLA style and citation resources at the OWL from Purdue.

LaTeX & BibTeX

LaTeX & BibTeX

Check out these resources to help you work with LaTeX and create bibliographies with BibTeX.

LaTeX Resources
This LaTeX guide highlights resources to help you learn about LaTeX and create documents using it. It is especially helpful with papers containing mathematical expressions.
How do I create bibliographies in LaTeX?
This page from MIT's IST Knoweldge Base provides directions for 2 ways to create bibliographies in LaTeX.
BibTeX
"The BibTeX program sorts and writes a document's bibliography (.bbl) using style files (.bst) and formatting-independent (in principle) bibliography databases (.bib). It works with LaTeX, plain TeX, and other TeX variants. BibTeX is currently distributed through TeX Live and other software collections."
Citation Management Tools: LaTeX & BibTeX
This guide from MIT discusses LaTeX. It also provides information on using standard citation managers (Zotero or Mendeley) and specialty citation managers for LaTeX (Jabref ) to manage reference and create a bibliography.