Citing Sources

Build a better bibliography!

Recommended by NMH teachers, librarians, and students.

  A bibliography and note-taking tool. Keep track of your resources online. Link notecards to your resources. Copy direct quotations and images to your notecards. Access your notecards and list of sources from any computer anywhere. Share your notecards and list of sources with your teacher or your project group.Print a bibliography in MLA, APA, or Chicago Style. Focus less on punctuation and more on finding and analyzing s

Online Citation Style Guides

• MLA and APA Guides
• Chicago Style Quick Reference 
• Chicago Style Examples

At the Reference Desk

Librarians are available to help you cite your sources and build a bibliography. Citation manuals and guides include:

• The Little, Brown Essential Handbook Pearson Longman, 2008.
• The Chicago Manual of Style 16th edition. University of Chicago, 2010.
• MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers 7th edition. Modern Language Association of America, 2009.
• A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations : Chicago Style for Students and Researchers by Kate L. Turabian. University of Chicago, 2007.

Copyright Guidelines

As an educational community, Northfield Mount Hermon School maintains the belief that intellectual property rights should be honored and that fair use of published materials is a legal and ethical responsibility of all members of the community.

Only the expression of an idea may be copyrighted, and even when it is, educators need to be aware of their right to fair use which enables teaching, research and news reporting.

What is Fair Use? (U. S. CODE TITLE 17, SEC. 107)
Acceptable use by someone other than the copyright holder for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research.

Guidelines for Library Reserves

The library will not photocopy materials for reserves. All photocopies belong to the teacher requesting materials for reserve.

• First-use materials require no copyright permission if they meet fair use guidelines
• Second-use materials require that copyright permission be requested. materials may be placed on reserve for another term with letter of request, or until response is received

Request permission from the Copyright Clearance Center.

Additional Resources on Copyright

• Know Your Copy Rights: Using Copyrighted Works in Academic Settings. Association of Research Libraries
• Copyright and Fair Use. Stanford University Libraries.