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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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Modern Language Association

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 Work Cited Samples

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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Documentation Guide

University of Chicago

Z253 .V69 2003
Chicago manual of style
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Chicago Manual of Style

Questions or comments

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