LibGuides: Interaction Design and Information Architecture: Lit Reviews and APA Citations

Literature Review Advice, Tips, and Tools

A short overview of some basic research for literature reviews

The Literature Review: A Few Tips on Conducting It
A set of questions to guide your thinking and writing from the University of Toronto
Tutorial: Search Techniques, Part 2
A short tutorial on some advanced search techniques that can be helpful for the thorough searching needed in literature reviews
Zotero
A free open source citation management tool, which can store literature for notetaking and plugs in to MS Word to generate citations. Requires installation of a browser plugin and desktop software.
Mendeley
Similar to Zotero, but purely web based, and owned by the Elsevier publishing company

APA Basics handout (PDF)
This handout contains basic information about creating in-text citations and reference page entries.