InfoGuides: Citation Information: Resources for Specific Styles (2024)

The resources on this page will offer information abouthow to create references (citations), in-text citations, paper formatting, and more.

The Purdue University Online Writing Lab, known asPurdue OWL, iscommonly considered the expert resource concerning many citation styles. It's website is freely accessible and offers detailed, current information for the following styles: APA, MLA, IEEE, Chicago, AMA, and ASA. Purdue OWL also offers excellent information about general writing, avoiding plagiarism, and resources specifically for students whose first language is not English.

• Purdue University Online Writing Lab

• Research and Citation Resources - OWL

Excelsior Online Writing Lab. Excelsior College, much like Purdue University, offers a very comprehensive website speaking to all things academic writing related. Interms of their citation resources, however, you will find only the three most commonly used styles: MLA, APA, and Chicago. If you areneeding assistance with one of these three, the Excelsior OWL website is an extremely helpful resource. See the linkbelow for theirCitation & Documentation.

• Excelsior Online Writing Lab

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  Exploring Skills’ Characteristics of the U.S. Occupations – Purdue Center for Regional Development

• Citation & Documentation - Excelsior

A note about databases and pre-made citations:

Many libraryresearch databases offer ready made citations. It's important to be awarethat these citations are machine generated and may contain errors. It's always a good idea to double check these database generated citations for accuracy.

IN THE BOXES BELOW YOU WILL SEE RESOURCES FOR SPECIFIC STYLE TYPES. IF YOU DO NOT SEE WHAT YOU NEED, REFER BACK TO THE PURDUE OWL RESEARCH & CITATION WEBSITEFOR ADDITIONAL STYLE TYPES, OR CONTACT YOUR LIBRARIAN.

• Research and Citation Resources - OWL

• Contact Your Librarian

• APA Citation Examples

The American Psychological Association's own website which offers many examples of the most commonly cited types of sources. For a list of examples for different types of sources, click on the tab entitled, "Style and Grammar Guidelines."

Ebooks

• Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association by American Psychological Association

  Publication Date: 2019-10-01

  The Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 7th Edition, is the official source for APA Style. Guides users through the scholarly writing process-from the ethics of authorship to reporting research through publication. Resources for students on writing and formatting annotated bibliographies, response papers, and other paper types as well as guidelines on citing course materials

• APA Guidelines - 7th Edition

  Publication Date: 2020-05-01

  Quick reference guide to the 7th edition of the American Psychological Association's publication manual for rules of punctuation, reference citation, structure and format across six handy pages filled with the answers you need for these commonly used guidelines.

MLA (Modern Language Association) style is most commonly used to cite sources within the language arts, cultural studies, and other humanities disciplines.

MLA’s own website is not complete, but it does offer examples of how to cite five basic source types. You can click on an entry to get more information, as well as find links to posts with more examples.

• MLA Citation Examples

• In-Text Citations: An Overview

• MLA Handbook by The Modern Language; The Modern Language Association of America

  Publication Date: 2021-04-06

  MLA Handbook is published by the Modern Language Association and is the only official, authorized book on MLA style. The new, ninth edition builds on the MLA's unique approach to documenting sources using a template of core elements.

The Chicago Manual of Style (CMS) is the preferred formatting and style guidelines used by the disciplines of history, philosophy, religion, and the arts.

The manual offers many examples of source types as well as information about in-text citations, paper formatting, and punctuation.

Ebooks:

• The Chicago Manual of Style Online by University of Chicago Staff (Editor)

  Publication Date: 2010-08-01

  Online version of the 2010 print edition.

• Chicago Manual QuickStudy® Guide

  Publication Date: 2012-05-31

  Based on the 17th edition of CMS, this 6 page guide covers the essentials of this style for academic research papers, business reports and published manuscripts. It covers aspects of the style necessary for most papers and publications and includes common, real-world sample references for both CMS citation formats so that you can be sure you are giving appropriate credit where credit is due.

• Harvard Reference Guide from Bournemouth

  This great guide has excellent information on how to cite and reference using a Harvard style.

• Harvard Citation Guide

  This takes you to recommendations and explanations for Harvard from BibGuru a third party citation tool.

• IEEE Website Reference Manual

  The IEEE Reference Guide outlines how to cite a wide variety of references in IEEE style.

• IEEE Website Mathematics Guide

  The IEEE Mathematics Guide illustrates how mathematical equations should be rendered in a technical article.

• The IEEE Guide to Writing in the Engineering and Technical Fields by David Kmiec; Bernadette Longo

  Publication Date: 2017-09-25

  Broken up into two sections: "Writing in Engineering Organizations" and "What Can You Do With Writing?" Covers topics most important to the working engineer and engineering students. Includes sample documents and offers a companion website that offers engineering documents based on real projects.