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.

American Psychological Association (APA)

Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 6th ed.
(Ref BF76.7 .P83 2010 & Permanent Reserve)

APA Style In-text citations and lists of references (from Diana Hacker's Research & Documentation Online)

APA Style - Basics
A quick flash tutorial to the basics of APA, from APA Online.

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 & Permanent Reserve)

Modern Language Association (MLA)

MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, 7th ed.
(Ref LB2369 .G53 2009 & Permanent Reserve)

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)

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.

Many of our databases and the WorldCat Local catalog also include built-in citation creation.

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