This brief tutorial is designed to walk you through a series of exercises that will introduce you to Citation as you will use it to help you organize research notes and document sources for course papers, dissertations, and other manuscripts detailing research findings.

The Overview summarizes the organizing principles for this tutorial, and explains how easily Citation can strengthen and streamline your research methods as you are writing in an academic environment.

Please note that this tutorial assumes you have a basic familiarity with word processing and Windows; that is, that you have basic skills for opening, saving, and closing files, finding folders on your hard drive, and using two programs at the same time.

If you are new to the research writing process or bibliographic database programs, you might want to browse through the background information provided in our introductory materials.