Cite This For Me: Web Citer

Cite This For Me: Web Citer - CTFM: Web Citer is a crisp, clean, simple app answer to Web citation needs.  Whether you are trying to keep your blog professional and copyright infringement free or you're working on an assignment for that ball-busting English professor, this is a great little app to keep in your quick-launch bar.

Let's say you're meandering around the Web and stumble upon an article in The New York Times website.  Something the author said just screams at you, "Use me!  Use me!"  So of course you use it.  Now, whether you just have trouble remembering the formatting for the particular style of citation your professor asks of you or you just hate all the time wasted in gathering the information, whittling it down, and then coughing it back up in just the right combination on your bib page, I've found nothing quicker or more accurate than this Chrome app.
I found this random quote on such a Times page that reads "When Rozovsky arrived on campus, she was assigned to a study group carefully engineered by the school to foster tight bonds." (Duhigg, 2016)

Now see the screenshots below for just how simple this process was for me (not that the quote is relevant to this story or the citation style required in this case.  I have APA 6th edition selected, by the way.)

Click this to copy inline-citation to clipboard.
In my case, it gives "(Duhigg, 2016)" as seen
above.  It will format your citation according
to the preferences you select in-app and at the
app's website/bibliography page (page
contains far more formatting preferences.
Full text of bibliography for the segment I referenced
above.  These can be copied and pasted into your
favorite word processing suite or archived with
an account.  Rates range from $25.00 monthly to $74.99
annually.













A simple left-click on the section shown here and you're ready to quickly paste the inline citation where needed in your piece.  Simply leave the tab that the bib page is generated on open until you're done working on your project, copy everything over (see second screenshot above for the look and feel of it all,) save and you're done (you can see the simple format it is copied in at the bottom of this page in my bib section.)

The site keeps your bibliography alive and well for a week without an account so if you're working on a long term project or just not ready to finish it in this time, be sure to copy/collect any information you need before it expires (or upgrade.)

Bibliography:
Duhigg, C. (2016). What Google Learned From Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team. Nytimes.com. Retrieved 25 February 2016, from http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/28/magazine/what-google-learned-from-its-quest-to-build-the-perfect-team.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0












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