Citation Guides

American Psychological Association Style Guides

Formatting Papers in APA Style

A Guide for Writing Research Papers (Capitol Community College)
http://www.ccc.commnet.edu/apa/
Scroll down to find "Students' Questions About Manuscript Preparation."

Creating Properly Formatted Word Documents (APA) (Westmont College, CA)
http://www.westmont.edu/_academics/pages/departments/psychology/pages/current_students/writing/apastyle/mswordformat.html

More Sources for APA Citation:

APA Style based on the APA 6th edition Manual (from Duke University Library)
http://library.duke.edu/research/citing/

Electronic Reference Formats (Online from the American Psychological Association)
http://www.apastyle.org/elecref.html

APA Format "Writer's Workshop Citation Styles Handbook" University of Illinois @ Urbana-Champaign
http://www.cws.uiuc.edu/workshop/writers/citation/apa/

APA Style Guide  (Georgia Southern University)
http://library.georgiasouthern.edu/libref/apastyle.pdf
This opens as a PDF file which requires Adobe Acrobat Reader.  Click "Open File" if prompted as it loads.

Refer to the print volume: The Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 6th Edition (2010) which is available in the Ely Library Reference Collection (REF BF76.7 P83 2010).

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Modern Language Association Style Guides

Formatting Papers in MLA Style:

MLA: Step-By-Step Instructions (Seton Hill University)
http://jerz.setonhill.edu/writing/academic/mla_style.html
This site provides very specific formatting guidelines for Word documents.

More Sources for MLA Citation:

MLA Style based on the MLA 7th edition Handbook (from Duke University Library)
http://library.duke.edu/research/citing/

Son of Citation Machine (David Warlick)
http://citationmachine.net/
By inputting the citation information available, you can create APA citations. Caution: Make sure to check each citation for correct formatting.

MLA Format "Writer's Workshop Citation Styles Handbook" (University of Illinois @ Urbana-Champaign)
http://www.cws.uiuc.edu/workshop/writers/citation/mla/

MLA Format - Giving Credit to Sources (Ohrstrom Library, St. Paul's School)
http://library.sps.edu/03research/bookcit.html

Refer to the print volume: The MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, 7th Edition (2009) which is available in the Ely Library Reference Collection (REF LB2369 .G53 2009).

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Chicago Manual of Style [& Turabian Interpretation]

Chicago/Turabian Documentation (University of Wisconsin-Madison Writing Center)
http://writing.wisc.edu/Handbook/DocChicago.html

Turabian Style (Bridgewater State College)
http://www.bridgew.edu/library/turabian.cfm

Turabian Style Guide (University of Southern Mississippi)
http://www.lib.usm.edu/index.php?id=83

Citing Electronic Information in History Papers [Based on Turabian Style] (University of Memphis)
http://history.memphis.edu/mcrouse/elcite.html

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CBE Style [Council of Biology Editors]

CBE (Council of Biology Editors) manual: Scientific Style and Format (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
http://www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook/DocCBE.html
For direct formatting information, select the citation-sequence system. <http://www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook/DocCBE_CitSeq_Intext.html>
Since these web pages are based on the 6th edition of the CBE Manual which was published in 1994, there is no coverage of formats for citing electronically available material.  The Council of Science Editors currently recommends using the National Library of Medicine's "Recommended Formats for Bibliographic Citation" for examples of how to cite these sources appropriately.

"Recommended Formats for Bibliographic Citation" (National Library of Medicine)
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/formats/internet.pdf
Caution: This is a long text (106 pages) which should not be printed out without selecting specific pages.

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