adaptation of Easybib introduction for manual entry.

2. Avoid plagiarism
Save time and aggravation
Make your life EASIER!

3. How does EasyBib make research easier?
Easily create Works Cited in MLA7 format
Fill-in forms help document sources accurately
Focus on writing and understanding citation,
instead of formatting rules
Export to Word or Google Docs fully-formatted
Save Works Cited pages online
Safe and secure: no spam or viruses

4. Register for an EasyBib Account
1. Click the
register link
2. Register and
create an account
with EasyBib
3. Enter an email
address and
password. Use
one you will
remember, such
4. No other info needed. as your school
You may use a fake computer login.
e-mail, but if you do, you
won’t be able to retrieve
a lost password.
5. Click “Create an Account”

5. Getting started
This is your project management page. From here
you can create, manage, and view projects. Start
by clicking “Create a new project”

6. Creating a new project
Give your project a
title, such as the
subject of your
paper.
Select MLA7
Then click “Create”

7. Getting Started
Your new
project has
been
created and
appears at
the bottom
of your list.
To start creating citations for this
project, just click “Bibliography”

8. Starting your Bibliography and selecting a source type
This is the bibliography start page.
Use these tabs to open fill-in forms

9. Viewing all source types
Click on
“All 58
options”
for links
to forms
for all the
possible
types of
sources.
It’s
important to
choose the
right form.

10. Citing a book
Check here to see if you have the right form!
Select the correct medium
Fill in all the information:
Spell correctly!
Capitalize!
If you don’t
know what goes
in a box, click on
it to open “Help”
Click the “Create citation” button, and...

11. Building your list
To add another
source, click on
“All 58 options”
again.
VOILA!
Easybib reverses
the name, adds
italics &
punctuation, and
adds it to your list in
alphabetical order!
If you find a typo or left something out, click on “edit” to open the form
again. Make your changes, then click “Update citation”

12. Citing an Encyclopedia
Check here to see if you have the right form!
Select the correct medium
Fill in all the information:
Spell correctly!
Capitalize!
If there is more than one
author, click “Add another
contributor” to add new boxes.
If it’s an Editor, not an Author,
Click on the pull-down menu
and choose Editor.
Click “Create Citation”

13. Citing a website
The title of webpage or
section goes here.
Fill in the rest.
Find the Publisher/Sponsor
usually at the bottom of the
page by the copyright date.
URL is NOT necessary unless
your teacher requires it.
Electronically published is the
date posted or revised.
Date accessed is the day you
got the info from the website.
Click “Create Citation”

14. Citing a document from an Online Database
Click here to
open a list and
choose what
kind of document
it was.
URL is
NOT Get the right
required database name.
unless EBSCO, Facts on
File, SIRS,
your
ABC-Clio, etc.
teacher is the Publisher/
says so. Service provider,
NOT the
database
Click “Create citation”

15. Exporting your Works Cited Page
When you are finished
typing
all your sources,
check for typos and
missing info.
If you are ready,
Click “Print as Word
Document”.
You can also e-mail it, or
export to Google Docs.
Click on “Click here to
download your
bibliography for MS Word”.

16. Exporting your bibliography
Click to “Open”.
Ta-da!!!
Your Works
Cited page is
DONE!
Save a copy to
your network
folder,
and print it for
your teacher.

17. Log out
Use your back browser
to go back to the
Bibliography page.
Click on
“logout”.
There is no need to
‘save’ your file.
Easybib does it
automatically.