Style Manuals and Other Guides

APA   |  ACS   |  CBE   |  Chicago   |  MLA   |
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Online Citation Tools

 

In accordance with Austin College's Academic Integrity policy, all sources, print and electronic, must be sited correctly within the text and in a list of works cited. Citation formats or "styles" vary for each discipline. Check with your professor or your course syllabus if you need to know which style manual to follow.

Please refer to the guides below to help you correctly credit information sources from books, journals, magazines, web pages, etc. used in your research papers. Read Why Cite? for a thorough explanation of the importance of citing sources.

 

APA (American Psychological Association)

• Citing References In Your Paper from The Writing Center at University of Wisconsin - Madison.

• Citing Sources from Owens Library Northwest Missouri State University.

Guides to Cite It! from University of Georgia Libraries, Athens, Georgia.

Style Tips from APA.org

ACS (American Chemical Society)

Reference Style Guidelines

CBE (Council of Biology Editors)

• Citing References In Your Paper from The Writing Center at University of Wisconsin - Madison.

• Citing Sources from Owens Library Northwest Missouri State University.

• Online! Citation Styles from Online!: A Reference Guide to Using Internet Sources by Andrew Harnack and Eugene Kleppinger

Chicago

• Citing References In Your Paper from The Writing Center at University of Wisconsin - Madison.

• Citing Sources from Owens Library Northwest Missouri State University.

• Guides to Cite It! from University of Georgia Libraries, Athens, Georgia.

• Chicago Style Citation Quick Guide from the Chicago Manual of Style Online.

MLA (Modern Language Association)

• Citing References In Your Paper from The Writing Center at University of Wisconsin - Madison.

• Citing Sources from Owens Library Northwest Missouri State University.

• Guides to Cite It! from University of Georgia Libraries, Athens, Georgia.

Turabian

• Citing References In Your Paper from The Writing Center at University of Wisconsin - Madison.

• Citing Sources from Owens Library Northwest Missouri State University.

• Guides to Cite It! from University of Georgia Libraries, Athens, Georgia.

Instructions for Citing Electronic Sources

• Citing Net Sources > Quick Guide from Ohio State University Libraries. Includes only APA and MLA examples.

• Documenting Electronic Sources from Purdue's Online Writing Lab. Includes APA, CBE, Chicago, MLA, and other style manuals.

• Electronic Style, the final frontier by George H. Hoemann of the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. Includes APA, Chicago, and MLA.

• Online! The Reference Guide to Using Online Resources, 2003 Update. Includes APA, CBE, Chicago, and MLA.

Other Guides

• Brief Guide to Citing Government Publications from University of Memphis.

• General Guidelines for Citing Government Publications from Government Documents Department, University of North Texas.

• Guide To Citing U.S. Government Publications from Indiana University.

• Sources, their use and acknowledgement from Dartmouth College.

Online Citation Tools

• These online citation tools and bibliographic managers are free and can be very useful in helping manage research, in-text citations, end-notes, work cited lists and bibliographies:

Zotero is a Firefox extension that can also be used in Flock (a browser based on Firefox) that helps manage references within the browser window. Although this tool is workstation dependent, a portable installation of Firefox can be carried on a flash drive to make the program and data commutable to other computers.

CiteULike this reference management center also adds a social bookmarking component that allows one to tag citations and discover similar articles from other's tagged and shared citations. Students can also create groups in CiteULike and participate in collaborative projects.

Bibme generates bibliographies and pull data from a variety of online sources including Amazon, FindArticles, and CiteULike. Bibliographies can be formatted in APA, MLA, Chicago and Turabian, and then exported into a word processor.