Library -- Citation Guides

Westfield State College Ely Library

Citation Guides

APA Style (American Psychological Association)

MLA Style (Modern Language Association)

Chicago Style (& Turabian Interpretation)

CBE Style (Council of Biology Editors)

Citing Legal Materials

Academic Honesty and Intellectual Ownership (or, what plagiarism is and how to avoid it)

See also: Avoiding Plagiarism

American Psychological Association Style Guides

APA Style - How to Document Information (Summary Guide based on the APA 5th ed. manual)
APA - Citing Library Database Articles in APA Style (Based on the APA 5th ed. manual)

Use this for articles you retrieve in full text or full page image from any subscription database.

APA - Citing Web Pages in APA Style (Based on the APA 5th ed. manual)

APA - Citing Legal Materials in APA Style
NoodleTools (Enter data from books, newspapers, journal articles, web sites, and magazines to format citations directly into APA style)

To use this resource, you must scroll down to "New User?" Click on "create a new folder"
You will be asked to choose a login (Make it easier by using your college email user ID).
You will have immediate access after chosing your ID and password.
Be prepared to fill in information for each source that you are using for your projects or papers.

More Sources

Formatting Papers in APA Style:

A Guide for Writing Research Papers (Capitol Community College, )

http://www.ccc.commnet.edu/apa/

Creating Properly Formated Word Documents (APA) (Westmont College, CA)

http://www.westmont.edu/_academics/pages/departments/psychology/pages/current_students/writing/apastyle/mswordformat.html

Citation Machine (David Warlick)

http://citationmachine.net/

Caution:

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More Sources for APA Citation:

Electronic Reference Formats (Online from the American Psychological Association)

http://www.apastyle.org/elecref.html

APA Format "Writer's Workshop Citation Styles Handbook" University of Illinois @ Urbana-Champaign

http://www.english.uiuc.edu/cws/wworkshop/writer_resources/citation_styles/apa/apa.htm

APA Style Guide (Georgia Southern University)

http://library.georgiasouthern.edu/libref/apastyle.pdf

Modern Language Association Style Guides

MLA Style - How to Document Information (Summary Guide based on the MLA 6th ed. manual)
MLA - Citing Library Database Articles in MLA Style (Based on the MLA 6th ed. manual)
MLA - Citing Web Pages in MLA Style (Based on the MLA 6th ed. manual)

More Sources

Formatting Papers in MLA Style:

MLA: Step-By-Step Instructions (Seton Hill University) (Best if viewed in Netscape 6.x or Internet Explorer)

http://jerz.setonhill.edu/writing/academic/mla_style.html

NoodleTools (Enter data from books, newspapers, journal articles, web sites, and magazines to format citations directly into MLA style)

To use this resource, you must scroll down to "New User?" Click on "create a new folder"
You will be asked to choose a login (Make it easier by using your college email user ID).
You will have immediate access after chosing your ID and password.

More Sources for MLA Citation:

MLA Format "Writer's Workshop Citation Styles Handbook" (University of Illinois @ Urbana-Champaign)

http://www.english.uiuc.edu/cws/wworkshop/writer_resources/citation_styles/mla/mla.htm

MLA Format - Giving Credit to Sources (Ohrstrom Library, St. Paul's School)

http://library.sps.edu/reference/Hypertext_tutorial/MLA_Stylesheet.shtml

The Official MLA Style for Citing Internet Sources

MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers

available at the Ely Library Reference Desk and in the Reference Collection (REF LB2369 .G53 1999).

Chicago Manual of Style [& Turabian Interpretation]

Chicago/Turabian Documentation

http://www.wisc.edu/writetest/Handbook/DocChicago.html

Turabian Style (Bridgewater State College)
http://www.bridgew.edu/library/turabian.cfm

Turabian Style Guide (University of Southern Mississippi)
http://www.lib.usm.edu/index.php?id=83

Citing Electronic Information in History Papers [Based on Turabian Style] (University of Memphis)
http://history.memphis.edu/mcrouse/elcite.html

CBE Style [Council of Biology Editors]

CBE (Council of Biology Editors) manual: Scientific Style and Format (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

http://www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook/DocCBE.html

citation-sequence system

http://www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook/DocCBE_CitSeq_Intext.html

"Recommended Formats for Bibliographic Citation" (National Library of Medicine)
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/formats/internet.pdf
Caution: This is a long text (106 pages) which should not be printed out without selecting specific pages.

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Last updated July 3, 2007