There are many different citation format styles. Ask your instructor what style format to use. The four major styles linked here are those of the Chicago Manual of Style, Modern Language Association (MLA), American Psychological Association (APA), and the American Sociological Association.
The MLA link is courtesy of the Writers' Workshop, part of the Center for Writing Studies at the University of Illinois. The others are used through the courtesy of OWL, the Purdue University Online Writing Lab.
Give credit where credit is due; cite your sources. Knowingly representing
the work of others as your own is plagiarism.
- American Sociological Association Style
- Information about manuscript formatting, in-text citations, and formatting the references page – The bibliographical format described here is taken from the American Sociological Review.
- Chicago Manual of Style
- The material in this resource focuses primarily on the two Chicago Manual of Style documentation styles: the Notes-Bibliography System (NB), which is used by those in literature, history, and the arts, and the Author-Date System, which is preferred in the sciences.
- Citation Styles Handbook: MLA
- A style guide prepared by The Writer’s Workshop at the Center for Writing Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Using American Psychological Association (APA) Format
- This style guide was prepared by the Online Writing Laboratory (OWL) at Purdue University.
