Citation Style Guides: Home

Citation Managers let you

• Import citations from the catalog and databases
• Store and organize citations
• Add research notes
• Format in-text citations
• Create bibliographies in different citation styles

Citation Style Guides show you how to

• Document the sources you are using in your work
• Create citations manually for all types of sources
• Embed quotations and paraphrases properly in your text

What is a Citation Style Guide? It's a handbook that describes the accepted format for citing the resources and references you used in your research papers, theses, articles, etc.

Don't know which citation style to use?

• Use APA for papers in psychology, education, and the other social sciences.
• Use MLA for papers in literature, arts, and humanities.
• Use Chicago for books, magazines, newspapers, etc.
   Turabian is designed for college students to use with all subjects.

Others:

• AMA (Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library Guide) : medicine, health, and biological sciences.
• ASA : sociology.
• APSA : political science, international studies.
• IEEE: engineering.
• (here is a Complete Discipline Listing, from OWL)
   

A citation is the information needed to locate the article (or book).

For articles, a complete citation generally includes:

• The author's name 
• The title of the article 
• The name of the magazine or journal in which it is located 
• The volume number of the magazine or journal (and sometimes the issue number) 
• The page numbers on which the article is located 
• The date when the article was published

For books, a complete citation generally includes:

• The author's name 
• The title of the book 
• The publication date
• The city in which the book was published 
• The book's publisher

Citations are also used to help readers of your papers find the information you used.