Documenting Your Research - Style Guides

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Style Guides illustrate how to format your in-text citations or footnotes, as well as how to format citations in your bibliography/works cited section. Different fields of study use different styles; if you're not sure which style is required for your assignment, check with your professor.

General Style Guides & Citation Builders

Research and Documentation Online
Excellent companion site to the Diana Hacker guide - covering MLA, APA, Chicago, and CSE.

OWL (Online Writing Lab at Purdue)
Comprehensive online guides to writing and citation from Purdue University.
Select "Research & Citation" from right-side menu; choose relevant style.

BibMe
A simple automated way to build most major styles of citations.

Son of Citation Machine
Another citation builder site - for MLA, APA, and Chicago/Turabian.

American Psychological Association (APA)

Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 5th ed.
(Ref BF76.7 .P83 2001)

APA Style - Electronic References
Companion site focused on electronic media, from APA Online.

APA Formatting & Style Guide
From Purdue's Online Writing Lab (The OWL at Purdue.)

Chicago/Turabian

Chicago Manual of Style, 15th ed.
(Ref LB2369 .C45 2003)

Chicago Manual of Style Online - Quick Guide
Common examples of the style, both notes and author-date systems.

Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations: Chicago style for students and researchers, 7th ed. - Kate L. Turabian
(Ref LB2369 .T8 2007)

Modern Language Association (MLA)

MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, 6th ed.
(Ref LB2369 .G53 2003)

Scientific Styles

ACS Style Guide : Effective communication of scientific information, 3rd ed.
(Ref QD8.5 .A25 2006)

Scientific Style and Format : the CSE manual for authors, editors, and publishers, 7th ed.
(Ref T11 .S386 2006)

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