Style Manuals
There are several styles in which the sources of an assignment should be cited. The most popular of these styles are MLA, APA, Chicago etc. All these styles have their own set of guidelines. If your professor has not assigned a particular style, you can choose one and use it consistently.
- APA - by KU Writing Centermost social sciences majors
Online Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association. 6th ed. Washington: American Psychological Association, 2009.
APA Style Guide to Electronic Reference.
APA Citation Style (Cornell U.)-- recommended by Guide author. - MLAlanguage and literature majors.
Gibaldi, Joseph. MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. 7th ed. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2009.
MLA Citation Style (Cornell U.) --recommended by this Guide author
cite online sources
- Chicago manual of style online This link opens in a new windowmost history and art majors
The Chicago Manual of Style.15th ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003.
Online Style Guides
- EasyBib's Visual Guide to Citations (MLA and APA)MLA/APA citation and Research eBook by EasyBib
- Humanities: Documenting SourcesMLA documentation style from Research and Documentation Online
- History: Documenting SourcesChicago style fromResearch and Documentation Online
- Social Sciences: Documenting SourcesAPA documentation style from Research and Documentation Online
- Anthropology: Documenting SourcesThe American Anthropological Association guide to citing sources. It is based on the Chicago Manual of Style, 14th ed., 1993.
- Online Citation StylesA guide to citing online sources with various documentation styles from Online! A Reference Guide to Using Internet Sources
Citations
- Give credit to the author/creator of an idea or creative work
- Provide the source (book, journal article, website of a published or unpublished item) with the author, title, publisher and place of publication, URL, and date
- Direct the reader to the original work consulted
- Son of Citation Machine (David Warlick )online citation generator under MLA, APA, Turabian, and Chicago. Input ISBN number checking for already used citations. Autho's blog for more information at Citation Machine Blog http://citationmachine.blogspot.com/
