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Citing Your Sources

Once you put your research on paper, you must provide information in your reference list or bibliography that leads the reader of your paper to the sources you have used.  Here are selected Web resources, tip sheets to some major citation styles, and print sources that will help you.

Web Sites

• Citation Guides for Doing Papers & Bibliographies
• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Guide to Online Style MLA, Chicago, APA, CBE
• How to Cite Information from the Internet and the World Wide Web official from APA
• International Federation of Libraries. Citation Guides for Electronic Documents links to online citation/style guides
• List of Style Manuals covering multiple disciplines
• MLA Style official from MLA
• Online! Citation Styles MLA, APA, Chicago, CBE
• Research and Documentation Online finding and documenting sources, multi-disciplinary
• Sources: Their Use and Acknowledgement APA, MLA 

Printed Materials

• The Chicago Manual of Style. 
  Z 253 .U69 1993 Watson Reference Desk
• MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers.[tip sheet]
  LB 2369.G53 Watson Reference Desk
• The MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing  
  PN 147 .G444 Watson Reference Desk
• A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations, by Kate L. Turabian.  
  LB 2369 .T8  Watson Reference Desk
• Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA). [tip sheet]  
  BF 76.7 .P82  Watson Reference Desk