KNOW YOUR CITATION STYLES
Citation FAQ from Charles Lipson's Doing Honest Work in College
The top two citation styles: MLA tends to be used in the Humanities. APA shows up in the Social Sciences.
- ISU tutorial: APA Style
- ISU tutorial: MLA Style
- Purdue: APA Formatting & Style Guide
- Purdue: MLA Formatting & Style Guide
- American Psychological Association Electronic References:
Online 'plug-and-play' citation Sites:
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Citation Machine - Choose style -APA or MLA-; enter data; citation formatted; covers many basic citation needs; e.g. book, article, etc. -- By the way, the Citation Machine creator, David Warlick has this to say about citing properly:
The primary goal of this tool is to make is so easy for high school, college, and university students and other researchers to credit information sources, there is virtually no reason not to -- because SOMEDAY THE INFORMATION THAT SOMEONE WANTS TO USE, WILL BE YOURS. -
easybib for MLA & APA, has a basic, free interface and a subscription upgrade version, MyBib Pro
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Other help: The Elements of Style (Strunk)
Citation Styles Best Practice: Buy the book! If you are in a program that is going to require a LOT of writing within a specific style, you should go ahead and buy a style guide. Undergraduates probably do not need to purchase the entire APA Publication Manual, but there are several alternative versions available, including a very nice! one from ISU's own Dr. Robert Perrin, entitled, Pocket Guide to APA Style. Graduate students using APA should purchase a copy of the APA Publication Manual. You can also investigate APA-Style Helper 5.1. See also APA's complete list of style-guide publications.
If you do not take a Freshman Writing course {typically English 105 or 107}, you may still wish to purchase a copy of the Handbook for College Research. It includes citation information - and a SAMPLE PAPER - for the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, APA, Chicago Manual of Style {and Turabian's A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations}, and CBE {aka Scientific Style and Format: The Council of Biology Editors Manual for Authors, Editors, and Publishers}. Note: for graduate students, the MLA has an additional publication, MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing. What's the difference?
OTHER CITATION STYLES
- AMA Style Guide aka AMA Medstyle STAT! based on (9th) edition of the AMA Manual of Style (1998);revised and expanded fall 2006 -- see also AMA Guide Home Page at Doc Scribe's.
- American Sociological Review
- CBE
- Chicago
NEW ELECTRONIC FORMS AND HOW TO CITE THEM
How do you cite a podcast, vodcast, blog entry, YouTube video, RSS feed entry, etc.? Are the style manuals keeping up with these newer forms of information? Well, that depends. In some cases you may not be allowed to use media for your research project. If you are, and you cannot find a citation format, check with your teacher or librarian, or do a targeted web search and verify any format suggestion with your teacher before proceeding.
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