Documentation Styles (Web Links)
Introduction to Documentation Styles
- Necessities in Academics: An Educational Guide to Documentation Styles (suggested by Bethany from Amorita Charter School)
American Anthropological Association
- http://www.aaanet.org/publications/guidelines.cfm. This style is a based on the 15th edition of the Chicago Manual of Style.
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
- http://www.aiaa.org/documents/publications/journalstemp.dot- The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, offers a complete template for Aeronautical Engineering students and faculty; it is very straightforward, and it allows you to simply cut and past your information into the template.
American Institute of Physics Style Manual, Fourth Edition
American Medical Association (AMA)
- http://www.liu.edu/cwis/cwp/library/workshop/citama.htm demonstrates the format for bibliographic references in AMA (American Medical Association) style. A guide for in-text citations, however, is not provided.
- http://libguides.hsl.washington.edu/ama provides at-a-glance help with sample bibliographic references of a certain type. For example, if one wanted to know how to cite an article from a website, an example is provided.
American Political Science Association (APSA)
- http://www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook/DocAPSA.html – A useful step-by-step guide to documentation from the Writing Center at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Very good for beginners.
- http://cooklibrary.towson.edu/docsLibrary/styleguides/APSA_print.pdf – Towson offers a short, basic guide in handout form.
APA (American Psychological Association)
- http://linguistics.byu.edu/faculty/henrichsenl/apa/apa01.html – This site provides a concise overview of APA style and formatting along with basic citation guidelines in an easy to navigate format. The page opens with an index that moves the user around easily.
- http://www.docstyles.com/apacrib.htm – “APA Style Crib Sheet” is the title of this site; it summarizes APA rules and was recently updated to reflect the 2009 edition.
- http://writing.wisc.edu/Handbook/DocAPA.html – From the University of Wisconsin-Madison, this site is well-organized, easy to navigate, and very informative.
- http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/online/cite6.html – Produced by a prominent textbook publisher, this site explains how to cite and document electronic sources in APA style.
- http://www.apastyle.org/learn/index.aspx - A tutorial on how to use APA style at the official site of the style guide, with a free course on the 6th edition of APA.
American Sociological Association (ASA)
- http://www.buffalostate.edu/library/docs/asa.pdf- Prepared by the E. H. Butler Library, a quick references to ASA style.
- http://www.calstatela.edu/library/styleman.html- The University Library at California State, Los Angeles, has a short guide to ASA style.
AP (Associated Press)
- http://www.scribd.com/doc/2664713/Associated-Press-AP-Style-Guide-the-basics The basics of AP style, used by journalists.
- http://ncdj.org/style-guide/ AP style compliant terms for disabilities, from the National Center of Disability and Journalism.
Association for Computing Machinery
Biomedicine, Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals (Vancouver style)
- http://www.icmje.org/ is the official site for the Uniform Requirements.
- http://www.lib.monash.edu.au/tutorials/citing/vancouver.html is Monash University’s abbreviated version of the Uniform Requirements site.
Council of Science Editors (CSE) (formerly Council of Biology Editors/CBE)
- CSE Citation Guide
- http://writing.colostate.edu/guides/sources/cbe/- This site starts with an overview, and then provides detailed instructions for the two different documentation systems used within CSE: the Citation-Sequence System, and the Name-Year System.
- http://www.monroecc.edu/depts/library/cbe.htm - If you are already familiar with CSE, and quickly need to find out how to cite a particular source, this is the site for you. The page begins with an index to all the examples that follow.
- http://dianahacker.com/resdoc/p04_c11_s1.html- This Bedford Handbook section provides information on how to format a paper in CSE style, how to create in-text citations and reference lists, along with sample pages to view.
- http://www.monroecc.edu/depts/library/cse.htm – A concise guide from Monroe Community College. Distinguishes between C-S (Citation-Sequence) and N-Y (Name-Year) versions.
Chicago Manual of Style (CMOS)
- Evan”s Library - Our library”s PDF downloadable handout, which addresses the author-date system for the sciences only. For the humanities” note-bibliography system, see any of the other links listed here.
- http://dianahacker.com/resdoc/p04_c10_s1.html - Site provides instructions for a bibliography and footnotes/endnotes according to Chicago Manual of Style as well as a sample paper.
- http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/online/cite7.html – This site offers a thorough overview of Chicago Style before giving examples showing how to deal with multiple types of electronic sites.
- “Examples of Chicago-Style Documentation” at http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools.html is a brief but useful cribsheet of Chicago style.
Ecological Society of America (ESA)
- http://esapubs.org/esapubs/AuthorInstructions.htm - Instructions for authors for Ecology, Ecological Applications, Ecological Monographs
Entomological Society of America (ESA)
- http://www.entsoc.org/pubs/publish/style/ - For Annals of the ESA, Environmental Entomology, Journal of Economic Entomology, Journal of Medical Entomology, and American Entomologist
IEEE (IEEE Computer Society)
- http://standards.ieee.org/guides/style/ – the official online version of IEEE Standards Style Manual provided by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. Be sure and read “About this Online Version” at the top of the page.
- http://www.computer.org/author/style/refer.htm – IEEE Computer Society provides a short version of how to reference using the IEEE style.
- http://www.carleton.ca/~nartemev/IEEE_style.html – Carleton College also provides a condensed version if you need a quick refresher on how to create citations in IEEE.
Journal of International Business
MLA (Modern Language Association)
- http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_mla.html- Detailed information on how to document using MLA. Site begins with the basic MLA paper format, explains how to create internal citations, create a works cited list, as well as notes.
- http://dianahacker.com/resdoc/p04_c08_o.html – Taken from the Bedford Handbook, this MLA section is designed especially for the humanities; it provides information on how to look for sources, how to create in-text citations, and works cited lists, as well as sample papers to look over.
- http://www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook/DocMLA.html – This site works well for quick reference since entries are separately linked.
- http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/online/cite5.html – Explains in detail how to cite many types of electronic online sources both internally and in the works cited.
- http://www.lib.unc.edu/instruct/citations/mla/ – Gives an overview of MLA style, and includes a troubleshooting guide for parenthetical citations.
- http://www.mlahandbook.org - Owners of the seventh edition of the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers can use a code in the book to create an account and access the entire guide in a searchable format. Additional resources, such as comprehensive steps to several writing projects, provide additional material to owners.
Rangeland Ecology Management (REM)
- Rangeland Ecology Management (REM) Style Manual (PDF) – this references the CBE Citation Guide, which is now the CSE guide. See above for more CSE resources.
Society for American Archeology
Turabian
- http://www.utoledo.edu/library/help/guides/docs/Turabian.pdf - Explains the difference between, and gives examples of, footnotes and bibliography entries in pdf format.
- http://www.wcu.edu/WritingCenter/isource.asp?page=turabian_format.html - Explains how to construct a bibliography in Turabian, as well as endnotes and footnotes.
- http://writing2.richmond.edu/writing/wweb/tura.html - Gives step by step instructions for formatting a paper when using Turabian along with examples of footnotes and bibliography entries
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