Quick Facts - Citation & Style Guides
Multiple styles | Electronic | Government | Tools for managing citations | Humanities | Social Sciences | Sciences
Sources covering multiple citation styles
Sources
Dartmouth College. Be sure to check FAQ if your question isn’t answered. MLA / APA / Science / MLA note. Identical to the print version.
Citation Styles Online
By Diana Hacker. Guide for citing print and online resources using MLA / APA / Chicago / CSE
University of Wisconsin- Madison, the Writing Center
MLA / APA / APSA / CSE / Chicago-Turabian. What’s particularly nice about this site is the attention given to parenthetical citations and notes.
Duke University- Assembling a List of Works Cited in Your Paper
Clear, very current examples of the major citation styles organized in an easily read table format.
Citing Sources Trinity University Library
Includes MLA / APA / Chicago / Turabian / ASA
C.W. Post Campus- Citation Style for Research Papers
MLA / APA / Chicago / Turabian / AMA
Electronic style guides
The Columbia Guide to Online Style
Covers Humanities and Scientific.
How to Cite Electronic Sources
Covers MLA and Chicago. From Library of Congress with a focus on films, maps, recorded sound, photographs and drawings, special presentations, and texts.
Citing Electronic Information in History Papers
The University of Memphis.
Citation Styles Online
By Diana Hacker. Guide for citing print and online resources using MLA, APA, Chicago, and CSE styles.
Government style guides
Brief Guide to Citing Government Publications , University of Memphis.
“These examples are based on the Chicago/Turabian standard bibliographic style and not reference-list form. You may need to modify the citation to conform to the manual/form you are required to use.
Tools for managing citations and styles
Citation Center
A free citation generator.
Select style and fill out form for an automatically generated citation. APA / MLA / Turabian. Not strong on Government Documents.
Son of Citation Machine
An interactive Web tool - just fill in the form and it will write the citation for you. MLA / APA / Chicago / Turabian.
EndNote Bibliographic Management Software
Bowdoin has a site license for this product which allows you to maintain a "personal library" of references and citations. It can also import citation information from the Library's Catalog, online indexes, and databases.
Humanities
Chicago Quick Guide
If your question is basic, this is the place to go. Includes online citing as well.
Chicago Manual of Style
Bowdoin subscription.
Paper Guides:
The Chicago manual of style, 15th ed. University of Chicago, 2003.
Electronic Styles: a handbook for citing electronic information, 2nd ed. by Xia Li and Nancy Crane, Information Today, 1996.
A manual for writers of research papers, theses, and dissertations : Chicago style for students and researchers, 7th ed., Kate L. Turabian University of Chicago Press, 2007.
MLA handbook for writers of research papers, 6th ed., Modern Language Association of America, 2003.
Research and Documentation in the Electronic Age, 3rd ed. By Diana Hacker, St. Martin's Press, 2002.
The Columbia guide to online style, 2nd edition, by Janice R. Walker and Todd Taylor, Columbia University Press, 2006.
Social Sciences
APA - Style Citations of Electronic Sources
From the American Psychological Association, shows how to cite an entire Web site as well as articles and abstracts from electronic databases.
ASA Style Guide
From the American Sociological Association. This brief guide, created by California State University, presents a summary of manuscript format requirements and examples of citations in text and references for print and electronic resources.
Chicago Quick Guide
If your question is basic, this is the place to go. Includes online citing as well.
Chicago Manual of Style
Bowdoin subscription.
Paper Guides:
ASA Style Guide, 2nd ed, American Sociological Association, 1997.
The Chicago manual of style, 15th ed. University of Chicago, 2003.
A guide for the young economist, by William Thomson, MIT Press, 2001.
A manual for writers of research papers, theses, and dissertations : Chicago style for students and researchers, 7th ed. University of Chicago Press, 2007.
Pocket guide to APA style; 2nd ed., Robert Perrin, Houghton Mifflin Company, 2007.
A pocket guide to writing in history, by Mary Lynn Rampolla, Bedford/St. Martin's, c2001.
Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 5th ed, 2001.
The complete guide to citing government information: a manual for social science and business research, 3rd ed., by Debora Cheney, Congressional Information Service, 2002.
Science
CSE Citation Style Guide
This guide is based on Scientific Style and Format: The CSE Manual for Authors, Editors, and Publishers 7th edition, 2006.
Chicago Manual of Style
Bowdoin subscription
ACS (American Chemical Society) Style Guidelines Quick Guide
Based on the second edition of The ACS Style Guide: A Manual for Authors and Editors (1997). From UC Berkeley Chemistry & Chemical Engineering Library.
Paper Guides:
The ACS Style Guide: Effective Communication of Scientific Information, 3rd edition, American Chemical Society, 2006.
AIP style manual, 4th ed. American Institute of Physics, 1990.
Author's handbook of styles for life science journals, CRC Press, 1996.
Scientific style and format: the CSE manual for authors, editors, and publishers, 7th ed. Council of Science Editors, 2006.
Handbook of writing for the mathematical sciences, 2nd ed. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 1998.
Geowriting: a guide to writing, editing and printing in earth science, American Geological Institute, 1995.
Science and technical writing: a manual of style, 2nd ed, by Philip Rubens, Routledge, 2001.
This page maintained by Katie Sasser. Last update: April 2008.