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Citing Your Sources
General Style Manuals & Writing Sources
Writing: Style/Usage Manuals
Help for writing A+ papers, grammar and punctuation, technical and
scientific writing and more.
The
WriteSource
Online writing manuals for grades 1-12, and a good place to start for
beginners.
Citation Builder
From North Carolina State University Libraries, "the Citation Builder
illustrates differences among several major styles of citing information
sources." Choose to cite a book, scholarly journal article,
article from a collection of reprinted articles, chapter or essay from a
book, a Web site, or a personal interview. Once the type of
information source is chosen, enter information about the source in the
online form and click the "Make Citation" button. The Citation
Builder produces the cited source in MLA, APA, and CSE formats that can
be copied and pasted into a document.
Citation Creator
This software will walk you through the process of a valid APA citation
for a book, article or interview,
based on the 5th Edition Publication Manual of the American
Psychological Association.
Citation Machine
Enter all your bibliographic information into the form provided and this
web site will automatically process the information into MLA and APA format.
Use it for citing books, journals, encyclopedias, newspapers, web page and
more.
Citation Styles
MLA, APA, Chicago, CBE, and others
EasyBib
Let EasyBib make citing your sources easier. Just provide the bibliographic
information and let EasyBib do the formatting, alphabetizing, and printing!
Killer Bib Tool
This site will help you format your works cited in APA, MLA, and other
styles by simply filling in the online form.
Citation Styles for Research Papers
APA, Turabian, MLA, Chicago and AMA
The Nuts
and Bolts of College Writing
This is a great source for information on how to write essays, structure
paragraphs, communicate clearly and correctly, and find your "voice".
StyleWizard
This site will walk you through creating a correct APA or MLA citation.
Enter all of your data and watch it create the citation for you!
AMA Style
R119 .A533 1998
American Medical Association manual of style : A guide for authors and editors
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AMA Style Guide
Based on American Medical Association Manual of Style, 9th ed., 1998.
AMA Citation Style
American Medical Association Manual of Style, 9th edition
AMA Style
American Medical Association Manual of Style, 9th edition
Cite Sources AMA Style
Explains how to cite in the text of the article plus other directions and
rules for compiling a bibliography.
APA Style
BF76.7 .P83 2001
Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association
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BF76.7 .P831
2007
APA Style Guide to Electronic Resources
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This supplement is available electronically as a pdf file to Penn
College students, faculty and staff using a network login and password.
Print copies are available at the location listed above. Included
in this supplement are new ways of referencing electronic journal
articles, wikis, and blogs.
Citation Creator
This software will walk you through the process a valid APA citation
based on the 5th Edition Publication Manual of the American
Psychological Association.
APA Citation Style
Contains examples for citing books, articles, online sources and more. Maintained
by the Cornell University Library.
APA Style: Changes in the Fifth Edition
Electronic Reference Formats Recommended by the APA
Guide for Writing Research Papers, APA Style
Prepared by the Humanities Department and the Arthur C. Banks, Jr.,
Library Capital Community College Hartford, Connecticut
Using American Psychological Association (APA) Format
Updated to 5th Edition. This site contains everything you need to know about
using APA style in your research paper. It also includes a
General
Format: APA Style
to follow when writing your paper. Produced by
Purdue University Online Writing Lab.
CSE Council of Science Editors
T11 .S386 2006
Scientific style and format: The CSE manual for authors, editors,
and publishers
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National Library of Medicine Recommended Formats for Bibliographic Citation
Using CBE to Cite and Document Sources
MLA Style
LB2369 .G53 2003
MLA handbook for writers of research papers
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Writing
a Bibliography: MLA Style
Honolulu Community College Library
Using Modern Language Association (MLA) Format
From the Online Writing Lab (OWL) at Purdue University
Electronic Sources - MLA Style
Guide for Writing Research
Papers based on MLA Documentation
Prepared by the Humanities Department and the Arthur C. Banks, Jr., Library Capital Community College Hartford, Connecticut
How to Organize a Research Paper and Document It with MLA Citations
MLA Format for Your
Citations
Many examples for citing all different kinds of sources. Maintained by Dallas TeleCollege Library and Richland College Library.
MLA Citation Style
Contains examples for citing books, articles, online sources and more. Maintained by Cornell University Library.
Turabian
LB2369 .T8 1996
A manual for writers of term papers, theses, and dissertations
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University of Chicago
Z253
.V69 2003
Chicago manual of style
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