ABSTRACT
Keeping track of the author's resources and notes is one of the most challenging but important skills to develop as they conduct their research. Web resources are sometimes quite difficult to keep track of for several reasons. When using a note card system, they will have many note cards perhaps dozens from each individual resource. That is because a good note card system separates out information so that it can easily be sorted for different purposes later in research project's development. They can create a referencing and page-numbering system by putting all bibliographic citations in one section and recording the information just as they would if we used note cards. Bibliographic software allows them to keep track of sources but does not necessarily allow them to link our notes to the sources. Most contain American Psychological Association (APA) and Modern Language Association (MLA) formats, although it is becoming common to also find software that includes the formats based on Turabian's book.
