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  Citing Sources
 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

There are many style manuals available on the World Wide Web that can assist you in citing sources for your research papers.

 

APA Style

APSA Style

CBE Style

Chicago Style

ERIC Documents 

GCU Bibliographical Style

Legal Citation

MLA Style

Turabian Style

Writing Guides

 

Citing Print & Electronic Resources

 

APA Style

 

APA Style for Electronic Sources
Recommended by the American Psychological Association (APA).

 

 

APSA Style

 

APSA Style
A writer's handbook from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Writing Center showing how to cite sources using APSA (American Political Science Association) style.

   

 

Citation Style Guides for Internet and Electronic Sources

Internet and electronic information, with no print equivalents, present new challenges to scholars.

 

CBE Style

 

CBE (Council of Biology Editors) Style

 

CBE Style
A writer's handbook by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Writing Center showing how to cite sources using CBE style.

 

Chicago Style

 

Chicago Style
A writer's handbook from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Writing Center showing how to cite sources using Chicago style.

 

 

GCU Bibliographic Citation

 

GCU Bibliographical Style For Writing Research Papers

The guide compiled by the GCU Library Staff with helpful examples showing how to cite manual and electronic sources using world recognized Styles accepted in the world known universities.

 

Legal Citation

 

Introduction to Basic Legal Citation
This citation primer is based on the Seventeenth Edition of the "Bluebook." Shows how to cite cases, constitutions and statutes, regulations, and other forms of legal documents and materials.

 

MLA Style

 

MLA Formatting and Style Guide
MLA (Modern Language Association) style is most commonly used to write papers and cite sources within the liberal arts and humanities. This resource, updated to reflect the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers (7th ed.) and the MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing (3rd ed.), offers examples for the general format of MLA research papers, in-text citations, endnotes/footnotes, and the Works Cited page.

 

Turabian Style

 

Turabian Style

The guide shows how to cite manual and electronic sources using world recognized Styles accepted in the world known universities.

 

Writing Guides

 

UIUC Writer's Workshop Online
This Writer's Workshop Online contains writing tips and links to helpful resources

William Strunk Jr.'s Elements of Style (1918 ed.)
The classic guide to usage, composition, and form for the English language.

The Internet Public Library: Style and Writing Guides
Provides a list of internet resources for proper grammatical usage, citation formats, or paper writing.

The Slot: A Spot for Copy Editors
This site serves as a supplement to the AP stylebook. Contains good advice on lots of tricky or picky situations and is fun to read.

 

Citeulike

Free service for managing and discovering scholarly references. It can easily store references you find online, discover new articles and resources, automated article recommendations, share references with your peers, find out who's reading what you're reading, and store and search your PDFs.

 

EasyBib (Write Smart)
he free version of EasyBib formats citations in the latest edition of the MLA format (currently the 7th edition). To use EasyBib's APA formatting services, sign up for MyBib Pro by clicking here: https://www-secure.easybib.com/products/easybibpro.

 

JabRef

An open source bibliography reference manager. The native file format used by JabRef is BibTeX, the standard LaTeX bibliography format. JabRef runs on the Java VM (version 1.5 or newer), and should work equally well on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.

 

 

Refbase
This web database lets you manage your academic references online, and share them with your colleagues. Using this free web service you can upload your references and see what others are reading, the database currently features 24047 records, organize and group your references, and assign keywords to them, so it's easy to get back to a reference, generate a formatted list of citations for your academic paper or CV (as HTML, RTF, PDF, or LaTeX), export references to desktop reference managers (such as Endnote, or Reference Manager) or BibTeX, and import records from common bibliographic formats and online databases.

 

 


   

 

 

 
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