Your professor will expect standard and consistent citation of your sources in your research project. Here's a guide to some of the common citation styles used in academic research.
ProQuest RefWorks is a citation management tool that helps researchers gather, manage, store and share information, as well as generate citations and bibliographies in a wide variety of styles. Extensive tutorials are available. The Write-N-Cite plugin allows you to cite sources while creating a paper in either Word or Google Docs, automatically building your cited references list as you write.