Citing Resources and Preparing Publications
This page provides a representative sample of
the many resources available to assist with the process of citing
print and electronic materials. When choosing a source for citation
protocol, be sure to consider whether the resource can be considered
reliable and when it was last updated.
Also included on this page are writing handbooks and guides to
assist you with the research and writing process and creating Web
pages and sites. The following sources have been selected as being
regularly maintained sites with a certain level of reliability. |
General Style Guides
| Bibliographic
References to Electronic Documents (International
Standard - ISO) |
| The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) guide
to citing electronic resources. |
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| Columbia
Guide to Online Style (Columbia University) |
| Considered to be a comprehensive manual for citing resources
found on the Internet, this web page includes samples from the
printed manual. |
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| Columbia guide to online style. (MAC Reference PN171 .F56
W35 1998) Janice R. Walker and Todd Taylor. New York : Columbia
University Press, 1998. |
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| MHRA style book : notes for authors, editors, and writers
of theses. (MAC Stacks PN147 .M65 1991) London : Modern Humanities
Research Association, 1991. |
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The New York Times manual of style and usage. (MAC Reference
PN4783 .S57 1999)
Allan M. Siegal and William G. Connolly. New York : Times
Books, 1999. |
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APA (American Psychological Association)
| APA Style
- Electronic References (APA) |
| The APA guide covers citing e-mail, web sites, specific electronic
documents, and articles and abstracts from electronic databases. |
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| APA
Documentation (UW Madison Writing Center Writer's
Handbook) |
| Includes information about citing resources based on the Publication
manual of the American Psychological Association published
by the American Psychological Association. |
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Publication manual of the American Psychological Association.
(MAC Reference BF76.7 .P82 1994, also at MAC Reference Desk BF76.7
.P82 1994)
Washington, DC : American Psychological Association, 1994. |
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APSA (American Political Science Association)
| APSA
Documentation (UW Madison Writing Center Writer's
Handbook) |
| Includes information about citing resources based on the Style
Manual for Political Science published by the American Political
Science Association. |
ASA (American Sociological Assocation)
| ASA style guide. (MAC Reference HM73 .A54 1997) |
| American Sociological Association. Washington, D.C. : American
Sociological Association, 1997. |
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CBE (Council of Biology Editors)
| CBE
Documentation (UW Madison Writing Center Writer's
Handbook) |
| Based on the CBE (Council of Biology Editors) manual, Scientific
Style and Format, which describes two systems of documentation,
the citation-sequence system and the name-year system. |
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| Council
of Biology Editors (CBE) Scientific Style (Colorado
State University Writing Center) |
| Based on the CBE (Council of Biology Editors) manual, Scientific
Style and Format, which describes two systems of documentation,
the citation-sequence system and the name-year system. |
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| Scientific style and format : the CBE manual
for authors, editors, and publishers. (MAC Reference T11 .S386
1994) |
| Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press,
1994. |
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Chicago/Turabian
| Chicago guide to preparing electronic manuscripts : for authors
and publishers. (MAC Reference Z286 .E43 U54 1987) |
| Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1987. |
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| Chicago/Turabian
Documentation (UW Madison Writing Center Writer's
Handbook) |
| Based on the The Chicago Manual of Style
and Kate Turabian's Manual for Writers. |
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| A manual for writers of term papers, theses, and dissertations.
(MAC Reference LB2369 .T8 1996) |
| Kate L. Turabian. Chicago : University of Chicago
Press, 1996. |
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MLA (Modern Language Association)
| The essentials of MLA style : a guide to documentation
for writers of research papers, with an appendix on APA style.
(MAC Reference PN 147 .T75 1998) |
| Joseph F. Trimmer. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 1998. |
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| MLA
Documentation (UW Madison Writing Center Writer's
Handbook) |
| Includes instructions for using the MLA style to cite resources
within text and on a works cited page. |
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| MLA handbook for writers of research papers. (MAC Reference
LB2369 .G53 1999, also at MAC Reference Desk LB2369 .G53 1999) |
| Joseph Gibaldi. New York : Modern Language Association of America,
1999. |
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| MLA style manual and guide to scholarly publishing. (MAC
Reference PN147 .G444 1998) |
| Joseph Gibaldi. New York : Modern Language Association of America,
1998. |
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Document and Resource Specific Guides
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General Writing Guides
| Facts in a flash : a research guide for writers
: from cruising the stacks to surfing the net. (MAC Reference
PN146 .M47 1999) |
| Ellen Metter. Cincinnati, Ohio : Writer's Digest
Books, c1999. |
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Writing empirical research reports : a basic
guide for students of the social and behavioral
sciences. (MAC Stacks LB2369 .P97 2000) |
| Fred Pyrczak, Randall R. Bruce. Los Angeles, CA : Pyrczak Pub.,
2000. |
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| Writer's
Handbook (University of Wisconsin Writing Center) |
| Instructions for citing electronic sources in the Documentation
Styles" section (APSA, APA, MLA, Chicago/Turabian, and CBE).
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| The writer's ultimate research guide. (MAC Reference
PN146 .M47 1995) |
| Ellen Metter. Cincinnati, Ohio : Writer's
Digest Books, 1995. |
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Subject Specific Writing Handbooks & Manuals
| The sociology student writer's manual. (MAC
Reference HM73 .S637 1998 ) |
| Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Prentice Hall, c1998. |
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Web Publishing Guides
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Web Style Guide |
| Style manual for the design of Web pages and Web sites. It provides
information on graphic and information design, page layout, site
organization, navigation, and Web multimedia content. |
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