Style Manuals

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Common Style Manuals

You should be aware of the style in which you are citing your sources before even beginning to collect source material. In this way, you can create your bibliography as you do research. Below are the most commonly used citation styles.

American Psychological Association (APA)

Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association 5th ed. Washington D.C.: American Psychological Association, Inc., 2001

Sample APA Citations

REF BF 76.7 .P83 2001
(Older editions at: BF76.7 .P83)

Chicago Manual of Style (CMS)

Chicago Manual of Style 15th ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003.

Sample CMS Citations

REF Z253.U69 2003

Modern Language Association (MLA)

Gibaldi, Joseph. MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. 4th ed. New York: Modern Language Association, 1999. Sample MLA Citations	REF LB2369 .G53 1999 (Older editions at: PN147 .G444)
See Also: Joseph Gibaldi and Walter S. Atchert, MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing. 6th. ed. New York: Modern Language Association, 2003	REF PN147.G444 2003

CBE Manual

Style Manual Committee, Council of Biology Editors. Scientific Style and Format: The CBE Manual for Authors, Editors and Publishers. 6th ed. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Also available online

T11.S386 1994

Electronic Style Manuals

Li, Xia. and Nancy B. Crane. Electronic Styles: A Handbook for Citing Electronic Information. 2nd ed. Medford: Information Today, 1996.

REF PN171.F56.L5 1996

Citing Internet Sources

Citation Styles for Research Papers - MLA, APA, Chicago, Turabian, AMA
http://www.liunet.edu/cwis/cwp/library/workshop/citation.htm

Assembling a List of Works Cited in your Paper
http://www.lib.duke.edu/libguide/works_cited.htm

Other Style Manuals

Amato, Carol J. World's Easiest Guide to Using the APA: A User Friendly Manual for Formatting Research Papers. Westminster, CA: Stargazer Publishing, 1998.	REF BF 76.7 .A52 2002
Blustein, Lotte and Rosemary Geary. Writing the Research Paper. Waltham, MA: Blustein/Geary, 1981.	LB 2369 .B66
Campbell, William Giles et al. Form and Style. 6th ed. New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1982.	LB 2369 .C3
Rubens, Philip, Ed. Science and Technical Writing: A Manual of Style. New York: Henry Hold & Company, 1992.	T11 .S378 1992
Scientific Style and Format: The CBE Manual for Authors, Editors and Publishers. 6th ed. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994	T11 .S386 1994
Turabian, Kate L. A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses and Dissertations. 6th ed. rev. by John Grossman and Alice Bennett. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.	LB 2369 .T8

Website

Purdue University Online Writing Lab (OWL) provides resources on MLA and ALA formatting and style guides, developing an outline, creating a thesis statement, and avoiding plagiarism.>

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/