Subject Guides: Graduate Student Research Tips & Tricks: Citation Help

Style Guides in Fogler Library

Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association
Call Number: Orono Ref BF76.7 .P83 2010
APA Style Guide to Electronic References
Call Number: ebook 2012
MLA Handbook by The Modern Language Association
Call Number: Orono Ref LB2369 .G53 2016
The Chicago Manual of Style
Call Number: Orono Ref Z253 .U69 2010
Scientific Style and Format by Council of Science Editors
Call Number: UM Orono Science and Engineering T11 .S386 2014

Writing Guides

Student's Guide to Writing College Papers by Kate L. Turabian; Gregory G. Colomb (Editor); Joseph M. Williams (Editor); University of Chicago Press Staff (Editor)
Call Number: LB2369 .T8 2010
A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations by Kate L. Turabian; Wayne C. Booth (Revised by); Gregory G. Colomb (Revised by); University of Chicago Press Staff (Revised by); Joseph M. Williams (Revised by)
Call Number: Orono Ref LB2369 .T8 2013

Reference Managers

There are a wide range of citation managers that can help you store citations, create bibliographies in the style of your choice, and cite while you write. Those that are supported by Fogler Library include:

Zotero (freely available online, with storage limitations)
Mendeley (freely available online, with storage and user limitations)
EndNoteWeb (basic, free version, with storage limitations)

Wondering how various citation managers compare to one another? Check out Wikipedia's Comparison of Reference Management Software.

Style Guides on the Web

General

How to Cite Digitized Primary Sources (Library of Congress) Examples in Chicago and MLA; how to cite electronic reproductions of primary sources, including film, photographs, legal and government publications, maps, recorded sound, text, and other special sources.
Sources and Citations at Dartmouth at (Dartmouth College) Not a style manual per se, but a writer's guide to academic integrity, citing sources, and evaluation of sources.

APA (American Psychological Association)

APA Documentation (University of Wisconsin Writing Center) Choose "APA Table of Contents" (right)
Frequently Asked Questions About APA Style (American Psychological Association) Lots of examples.
APA Formatting and Style Guide (Purdue Online Writing Lab)
Citing Business Sources in APA Style (Fogler Guide)
APA Style Guide to Electronic References An e-book which explains how to cite web documents (sometimes with missing elements). Provides examples for citing books, book chapters, journal articles, technical & research reports, conferences, dissertations, data sets, web sites, message boards, electronic mailing lists, and social media.

Chicago (Turabian) Style

Chicago Manual of Style 17th Edition (Purdue Online Writing Lab)
Ohio State University Guides to Chicago Style: Author-Date System, Notes-Bibliography System
Turabian Quick Guide (U of Chicago Press)
Chicago-Style Citation Quick Guide

MLA (Modern Language Association)

MLA Style Center (MLA)
MLA Formatting and Style Guide (Purdue Online Writing Lab)

Government and Legal Publications

Citing U.S. Government Publications (IU Indiana University Bloomington)
Introduction to Basic Legal Citation (Cornell Law School) Guide to citing judicial opinions, constitutions and statutes, arbitration, court rules, cases, etc.

Other Forms

ASA (American Sociological Association) Format (California State)
Council of Science Editors (Colorado State)
Council of Science Editors (CSE) Style Guide (Ohio State University)
American Anthropological Association Style Guide
American Journal of Physical Anthropology Style Guide (Berkeley)
Scroll to the 3rd page where it says, "The literature list must be arranged alphabetically..."
Vancouver style "...commonly used in medicine and science..."

Formatting Papers