 Hello, I'm librarian Kate Shelberg, and I'm going to show you a newly updated citation tool within Google Docs that you might find helpful. First, a little bit about what this tool does and doesn't do. This tool is essentially a form you open within your Google Doc that has you fill in information about each source you want to cite, then it formats the citations for you. Once you enter the information, you can also easily make edits to the citation once it's been added to the end of your paper. This citation tool is not like EasyBib or similar citation generators, where you just give the title or URL and it creates a citation on the spot. Instead, this tool guides you in what information is needed, then does the formatting for you. It also does not have options for citing images or videos. You can still cite them, but you will have a little more work to do to make the citations. To use the citation tool, open the Google Doc where you want to add citations. Go to Tools in the menu, then select Citations. You should see a sidebar open up along the right side of your document. First, select what style of citation you want to use. I'm going to select MLA for the sake of this demonstration. Second, for each source you cite in your paper, you will click on Add Citation Source. This is what brings up the form where you can add information about your source. Next, select the type of source. With this tool, you are limited to book, book section, website, journal article, and newspaper article. If none of these options seem quite right, just select the type that seems closest to your source. Then, you'll select the format of the source, print, website, or online database. The online database option would be for sources you found through the library's online resources. Fill in what you can find out about the source, skipping any elements that don't apply. Remember, in the last step of this process, you will have a chance to correct anything that the citation tool doesn't do properly. If you have two or more authors, or if you have an author as well as an editor, click the plus contributor button. Then select the role. Author, editor, and translator are options. There are two things I want you to pay attention to where the citation tool doesn't guide you. First is capitalization. The tool will format names and titles exactly how you type them in, only adding punctuation and italics where it's needed. Also, the citation tool won't format the date for you. For the day, just enter the number if there is one. For month, enter the abbreviated month. Or the full month, for May, June, or July. Then enter the year. That's the basic process for adding citations. As you write your paper and run across a source to add, you will follow the same process. Click add citation source and follow the prompts to fill out another form. You'll see the sources you've already added will now show in the citation sidebar. And they will be saved there along with the document you're editing. See the next video in this series for instructions on how to add in-text citations and a work cited or references list using Google Docs citations tool. Thanks for watching and remember to use the library website for help with your citations.