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Wayfinders for our collections, tools, and servicesWorking with citations: Citations and Style Manuals
Citations and Style Manuals
Citations/references/footnotes are the way scholars indicate what resources they have used and give credit to the work/ideas of other scholars. Publishers and instructors will require that your citations be in a particular format--and there are many. Fortunately, a few will suffice for much of your work. Here are some of the more popular ones:
- Chicago manual of style (online)The Chicago Manual of Style is used by many publishers and disciplines such as history.
MLA handbook by Publication Date: 2021Relied on by generations of writers, the MLA Handbook is published by the Modern Language Association and is the only official, authorized book on MLA style.
Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association by Publication Date: 2020The Publication Manual of the APA is often used in the social sciences.
You will find that these works also offer many other wonderful suggestions to help you in your writing.
More information
- What Is Plagiarism?from the Stanford University Honor Code
- Purdue Online Writing Lab.with links to information about various style guides
Harvesting Citations
Searchworks and many other databases you will use allow you to get a simple citation by using a "CiteThis" feature or gather more information by using a Send to/Export feature to send records to bibliographic management tools such as Refworks or EndNote. You can also use resources such as Zotero to gather information including citations. For more help with these resources see Citation management.
