Back in high school I deplored writing bibliographies. All the formatting rules drove me up the wall and I never understood the need for a standard of referencing books.
How I wish OttoBib was available back then.
This handy little browser app takes the ISBN [International Standard Book Numbers] of the books you want to reference and changes that into one of three formats, MLA, APA, or Chicago/Turabian. That’s it, instant references.
OttoBib accepts both ISBN-10 and ISBN-13, and will also spit out a permalink of the results so you don’t have to enter the numbers again.
Make a bibliography. It’s free, easy and OttoMatic – [OttoBib]
Hmmm…I tried three different books in two different formats, and none of them were correct.
OttoBib is great when it works.
Unfortunately, it often does not. It seems to get about 1 in 4 books correct from the ISBN
EasyBib.com is a little better at times – you might have to input more, but it handles the formatting better. And allows you to include all your non-book sources like periodicals and web sources.
http://www.easybib.com
http://www.librarything.com – a related web-site
report due in 30 min!!! plz hurry!
The teacher requests Turabian style bib and footnote. ottbib is nice but doesn’t work in all format. And it does not generate the footnote for my paper though. I would recommend another website instead. It is free and you can even transfer the footnote into bib with one click.
http://www.eturabian.com
Might even try http://www.bibomatic.com, it’s another great bibliography generator and it’s completely free. No ads even…
I am an instructor at Northampton Community College in Bethlehem, PA and I’d like to know if I could use the picture of a pile of books on a programmable logic controller tutorial website that I’m developing?
I will cite the source in any way you’d like.
Thank you for your time and consideration.
John
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