Subject Portal » Citation & Style Guides
Ready Reference:
- Biographies
- Book Reviews
- Census Information
- Citation & Style Guides
- Converters & Measurements
- Copyright
- Dictionaries & Thesauri (English)
- Dictionaries (Foreign Language)
- Digital Initiatives
- Digitized Art Collections
- Directories: Telephone, Zip Code, & Email
- Encyclopedias
- Film Reviews
- Genealogy
- Government
- Images
- Libraries & Archives
- Maps & Geography
- Philadelphia Region
- Spatial Data
- Statistics & Data
Databases A-Z:
Other:
General Guides:
Assembling a List of Works Cited in Your Paper
This straightforward site provides side-by-side examples of APA, Chicago, MLS, Turabian & CSE for different types of sources. From the Duke University Libraries.
Citation Style Guides
Collection of concise guides to AAA, APA (5th ed.), Chicago and MLA. From The Library @ Seattle Central.
Citation & Style Guides for the Sciences
Purdue Online Writing Lab
An excellent place to look for examples, instruction, and advice on citation formatting.
Guides to Specific Styles:
APA Formatting and Style Guide
Excellent guide to APA (6th ed.) from the OWL at Purdue University.
- For a shorter "crib sheet," see APA Citation Style Examples from Wayne State U.
- For a more thorough printable guide (19 pp.) see Citing Sources Using APA Manual (6th ed.) from Nova Southeastern University.
American Sociological Association Style
This Quick Style Guide for Students Writing Sociology Papers is based on the guidelines used by authors writing for ASA journals.
Brief Guide to Citing Government Publications
From the University of Memphis.
Chicago manual of style
Provides guidance to the proper use of written English. For help with citing specific types of materials, go to Section 17: Documentation II: Specific Content.
Chicago Manual of Style - guide to citing online resources
Harvard system
Online guide, with available 27 page pdf, to the Harvard author-date referencing system. From the Anglia Ruskin University Library.
MLA Citation Guide (PDF)
From The Library @ Seattle Central.
Turabian Quick Guide
This Quick Guide, drawn from Kate L. Turabian’s Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations, gives examples of both the notes-bibliography style and the parenthetical citations–reference list style of citation.
Citation Builder:
Citation Builder
Use this tool to build a citation to a book, article, chapter, website, or personal interview, in several major citation formats: APA, MLA, and CBE/CSE. (From the NCSU Libraries.)
Citation Management Tools:
EndNote Web (personal login for members of trico community)
EndNote Web is a tool for storing and managing your research citations. Store up to 10,000 citations, imported directly from Web of Science or via a download process from almost any other online database. You can also output a bibliography in any of hundreds of styles, or use "Cite While U Write" to include citations and a bibliography to your Microsoft Word documents.
EndNote Web User Guide
This guide provides step-by-step training for Trico users of EndNote Web, including instructions for using the proper filter to download citations from different databases we use in the Consortium.
zotero
This plugin for Firefox will allow you to quickly save citations that you're viewing on a page. If you always do your work from a single computer, this may be the best citation management tool for you.
Creating an annotated bibliography:
How to Prepare and Annotated Bibliography
A guide with definitions, suggestions, and examples, from the library at Cornell University.
Elements of the Annotation
A useful list of ten points to consider as you write your annotations, from the library at Carleton College.