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APA Style

APA Electronic Format Electronic reference recommended by the American Psychological Association.

APA Style: The Social Sciences Bedford/St. Martin's "Research and Documentation Online" from Diane Hacker, Prince George's Community College. Examples of in-text citation, bibliographic entries, manuscript format and a sample paper.

APA Style Guide "Psychology With Style: A Hypertext Writing Guide" - Version 2 by M. Plonsky, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin -Stevens Point.

Using APA Format Excellent handout created by OWL (Online Writing Lab) at Purdue University.

Citation Guide: APA Guide Simon Fraser University Library

APA Citation Guide Ohio State University Libraries

APA: Overview Prepared by Writing Center at Colorado State University.

APA Citation Format Guides created by Katherine Holmes, Asst. Library Director, Ludcke Library at Lesley College.

APA Style Bibliographic Citations Guide Seattle Central Community College Library.

APA Documentation Style From The Writer's Handbook, University of Wisconsin-Madison Writing Center.

APA Style Guide From the Bibliography Styles Handbook at the Writers' Workshop, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

MLA Style

MLA Style These guidelines on MLA documentation style are the only ones available on the Internet that are authorized by the Modern Language Association of America.

MLA Style: English and other Humanities Bedford/St. Martin's "Research and Documentation Online" from Diane Hacker, Prince George's Community College. Examples of in-text citation, list of works cited, information notes, manuscript format and a sample paper.

Using MLA Format Excellent handout created by OWL (Online Writing Lab) at Purdue University.

Citation Guide: MLA Simon Fraser University Library

MLA Citation Guide Ohio State University Libraries

MLA: Overview Prepared by Writing Center at Colorado State University.

Citing Databases - Gale  Citation guides for electronic documents found online in Gale Databases like Infotrac Newspapers, Business & Company Resource Center, Literature Resource Center, and Health Reference Center.

MLA Citation Format Guides created by Katherine Holmes, Asst. Library Director, Ludcke Library at Lesley College.

MLA Bibliographic Guide Seattle Central Community College Library.

MLA Style Guide From the Bibliography Styles Handbook at the Writers' Workshop, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Other Styles

Uncle Sam - Brief Guide to Citing Government Publications "This guide provides examples of the most common examples of government document citations. These examples are based on the Chicago/Turabian standard bibliographic style and not reference-list form."

Chicago Style: History Bedford/St. Martin's "Research and Documentation Online" from Diane Hacker, Prince George's Community College. Examples of footnotes & endnotes, bibliography, model notes, manuscript format and sample pages.

Citation Guide: Chicago/Turabian Style Simon Fraser University Library

Citation Guide: Chicago/Turabian Style University of California-Berkeley

Chicago Manual of Style Citation Guide Ohio State University Libraries

Chicago Manual of Style (Turabian) Prepared by Writing Center at Colorado State University.

Chicago (Turabian) Bibliographic Guide Seattle Central Community College Library

Citing Electronic Information in History Papers Dr. Maurice Crouse, Department of History, The University of Memphis

Introduction to Basic Legal Citation Peter W. Martin Cornell Law School - "This citation primer is based on the Seventeenth Edition of the "Bluebook." This document links, point by point, to the disk version of this material held on the LII's Folio Webserver."

Council of Biology Editors (CBE) Scientific Style Prepared by Writing Center at Colorado State University.

CBE Citation Guide Ohio State University Libraries.

CBE Number System: Sciences Bedford/St. Martin's "Research and Documentation Online" from Diane Hacker, Prince George's Community College. Examples of number system, reference list, manuscript format and sample pages.

Combo Pages

Style Manuals and Writing Guides California State University, Los Angeles library guides includes AAA, APA, ASA, MLA, Chicago and Turabian.

Citing Electronic Sources - Library of Congress Provides MLA and Turabian style, both structure & examples, using the various resources available on the Library of Congress web site.

Citation Style Guides Choose from MLA, APA, Turabian, and Chicago at Auburn University Library. Examples of citations for articles from online databases including EBSCO, InfoTrac and ProQuest.

Citation Style for Research Papers Choose from MLA, APA, Turabian, Chicago, and AMA at Long Island University Library.

ONLINE! Citation Styles Companion web site to a Bedford/St. Martin's print publication, "ONLINE! A Reference Guide for Using Internet Resources," by Harnack & Kleppinger.

Citing Sources From Duke University Libraries "Guide to Library Research" includes APA, MLA, Chicago, and Turabian

Documentation Formats University of Washington writing center includes APA, MLA, CBE and ADFA.

Citing Electronic Resources by Binghamton University Libraries

Online Auto-Style Composers

Citation Builder "...easy-to-use tool that helps students construct APA, MLA, and CBE style citations for books, scholarly journal articles, articles a reprinted collection, book chapter, personal essay, or interview."

Citation Machine David Warlick's Landmark Project includes this online composer. Uses fill-in-the-blank forms to build a MLA-style bibliography. Forms included are Web Page, Book, Article, Newspaper or Magazine and Email Message.

MLA Work Cited Form OR APA Work Cited Form From the Oregon School Library Information System. Interactive MLA and APA online citation builders.

EasyBib.com "EasyBib.com is a website dedicated to helping writers create bibliographies. Whether the source may be an encyclopedia, a book with three authors, or an online database, the individual formats can often be confusing." "Easybib.com adheres to the 6th Edition of MLA Handbook for Writers and Researchers."

Bib Builder 1.3 "Choose a form, fill it out, and push the button... you will get an individual entry for a "Works Cited" page, which you may then copy and paste into your word processor. The BibBuilder is more like a guide than a full-fledged utility, but you may nevertheless find it helpful."

UTEL: MLA-Style Bibliography Builder 1.0b "The bibliography builder helps you to fill in a form with the information required to construct an entry for an MLA-style Works Cited list. Help is available for each item on the form."

NoodleBib - The MLA Bibliography Composer NoodleBib is now part of a subscription service called NoodleTools. It does provide a method to simplify the process of creating and editing MLA-style bibliographies. There is a fee for this service.

Writing Centers

Purdue University's On-Line Writing Lab With over 120 instructional handouts, this is one of the finest collections of writing resources on the Web. Topics covered include writing research papers, parts of speech, punctuation, sentence construction, spelling, ESL, and more.

Writing@CSU: The Writing Center at Colorado State University "The Writing Center supports local and CSU writers and teachers with a wide range of resources, including interactive tutorials and demonstrations, writing guides, and extensive links to writing and teaching resources on the Internet."

Undergraduate Writing Center @ University of Texas-Handouts

University Writing Center @ Texas A&M University

The Writing Center @ Tidewater Community College Another excellent collection of writing handouts and guides from a Virginia community college.

Writing Guides and Handbooks

Strunk's Elements of Style (William Strunk, Jr, 1918, first edition) The classic work on good writing style.

Guide to Grammar and Writing College guide to effective use of the English language. Includes definitions of sentence parts, rules for comma usage and other punctuation marks, plurals and possessives, spelling, nouns and modifiers, words and phrases to avoid, capitalization, spelling and abbreviations.

Guide to Grammar & Style Prepared by Jack Lynch, "Assistant Professor in the English department of the Newark campus of Rutgers University, specializing in the English literature of the eighteenth century.."

Hypertext Writer's Guide From the University of Victoria (Canada) Writing Center. "Originally prepared for students in the English Department at the University of Victoria, the Guide is an introduction to the process of writing and to the study of literature."

Indispensable Writing Resources "From Quintessential Careers: You'll find everything on and off the Net that you could possibly need in writing or researching a paper, including links to all sorts of reference material, links to writing labs, links to Web search engines, and links to writing-related Web sites."

LEO: Literacy Education Online "LEO is the homepage for The Write Place, the writing center at St. Cloud State University, as well as the online site for Kaleidoscope, SCSU's multicultural literary magazine."

Paradigm Online Writing Assistant Exceptional interactive online guide to writing essays & term papers.

Writer's Handbook From the University of Wisconsin-Madison Writing Center topics include Academic Writing, Essays & Application Letters, Grammar & Style and Documentation Guides.

Writers' Workshop From the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Be sure to look at the other writing resources available on this exceptional web site.

Advice on Academic Writing "These files answer the kinds of questions that University of Toronto students ask about their written assignments. Most were created by writing instructors here--people who are familiar with U of T expectations. But you will also find links to good advice from writing instructors at other institutions."

A+ Research & Writing Center From the Internet Public Library a "Step by Step Guide to Researching and Writing a Paper."

Getting an A on an English Paper From Jack Lynch, English Professor at Rutgers University: "My audience is primarily undergraduates in college English classes, though of course some advice will be appropriate for high schoolers and graduate students. The idea is to collect all my advice on writing good English papers in one place. There's no guarantee following this advice will earn you an A — there are few guarantees to be had anywhere — but I hope all of it will be useful in improving your papers."

How to Write an Essay The Department of English, University of Victoria

How to Write a Term Paper From Gale Online Publishing "This guide is designed to support you as you use electronic and print resources to: Choose a Topic...Begin and Organize a Research Paper...Prepare a Works Cited Page."

Writing about Literature From LITWEB, an online companion to The Norton Introduction to Literature.

The Research Paper Guide From the Tallahassee Community College Writing Center.

How to Prepare an Annotated Bibliography Cornell University Library

MLA: Annotated Bibliography Miracosta College Library

Annotated Bibliography Guidelines Tidewater Community College Writing Center

Annotated Bibliography Example Scottsdale Community College Writing Center

How to Write a Project Proposal From the Worchester Polytechnic Institute

Proposal Writing - A Practical Guide From the University of California, Irvine

UCI Libraries Thesis and Dissertation Manual From the University of California, Irvine

Texas A&M University Thesis and Dissertation Manual

A Guide to Preparing Your Master's Thesis and A Guide to Preparing Your Doctoral Dissertation From the University of Wisconsin-Madison Graduate School

Writing and Presenting Your Thesis or Dissertation "Instead of examining such aspects as identifying appropriate sample size, field testing the instrument and selecting appropriate statistical tests, this guide looks at many of the quasi-political aspects of the process. Such topics as how to select a supportive committee, making a compelling presentation of your research outcomes and strategies for actually getting the paper written are discussed." Scroll to the bottom of the page to find excellent links to additional online information.

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