Style guides for footnotes and bibliographies

Proper citation is important for all scholarly work. Style guides, or style manuals, provide detailed information about how to use a particular citation style for various media formats. The following list is a selection of citation style guides. The electronic guides do not include all the rules and formats of the citation style.

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Citation Styles & Formats

APA Style

• APA documentation (U Wisconsin-Madison)
• The Owl at Purdue - APA
• Cite Resources: American Psychological Association (APA)
• APA Style: the social sciences
• A Guide for Writing Research Papers - based on APA style
• Print guides:
  • Publication Manual for the American Psychological Association, 6th ed. and Corrections to the Manual, 6th ed. (print guide)
  • Writing with Style: APA Style Made Easy (print guide)

MLA Style

• MLA documentation (U Wisconsin-Madison)
• The Owl at Purdue - MLA
• How to Cite Business Sources in MLA
• MLA Style: English and the humanities
• A Guide for Writing Research Papers - based on MLA style
• Print guides:
  • MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers (print guide)
  • Cites & Sources: MLA Guide (print guide)

Chicago Style

• The Chicago Manual of Style Online
• Chicago/Turabian documentation (U Wisconsin-Madison)
• Print guides:
  • The Chicago Manual of Style (print guide)
  • A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations (print guide)

Harvard System

• Harvard System of Referencing Guide
• How to Use the Harvard Style of Referencing
• Harvard (author-date) style examples

Other styles

• AAA (American Anthropological Association) Style Guide
• American Sociological Association Format
• APSA (American Political Science Association) documentation (U Wisconsin-Madison)
• CBE (Council of Biology Editors) documentation (U Wisconsin-Madison)
• Oxford Style
• Strunk's Elements of Style
• Vancouver Style
• York University Style Guide

RefWorks

Interested in an electronic management tool that will create in-text citations and bibliographies? RefWorks is a web-based bibliographic management tool (citation manager) that allows you to create a database of citations or references to resources (books, journal articles, web sites, etc.). It facilitates the insertion of citations within a research paper as in-text references, footnotes, or endnotes, and the creation of a formatted bibliography using a citation style of choice. All major citation styles are supported (e.g., APA, MLA, Chicago, etc.).

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