Macdonald-Kelce Library: Instructional Design and Technology: Citations

Citation Guides Online

These websites can help you format your paper and citations properly. The list below are style guides available online (mostly through Purdue University's Online Writing Lab (OWL)).

Check your assignment instructions or ask your professor which style to use.

AMA - Purdue OWL
Purdue Online Writing Lab citation guidance and examples

AMA Manual of Style
This guide specifies the writing and citation styles used in journals published by the American Medical Association (AMA).

APA - Purdue OWL
Purdue Online Writing Lab citation guidance and examples
APA Style & Grammar Guidelines
The style and grammar guidelines pages present information about APA Style as described in the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, Seventh Edition and the Concise Guide to APA Style, Seventh Edition.
ASA (American Sociological Association) - Purdue OWL
Purdue Online Writing Lab citation guidance and examples. You can find the complete ASA guide at the library's circulation desk.

Chicago Manual of Style Online
Provides guidelines on style, usage, grammar, and citation format with examples. Both the 17th and 16th editions are accessible.

CSE Quick Citation Guide
Citation and style guide often used with the natural sciences. This quick guide was provided by Penn State University Libraries.
MLA - Purdue OWL
Purdue Online Writing Lab citation guidance and examples
Turabian: A Manual for Writers - Chicago Style for Students and Researchers
While there are a few minor differences between Chicago and Turabian styles to accommodate the needs of student paper writers, they share the same Chicago-style citation formats

Citation Managers do your citation automatically!

By installing a plugin into your browser and Microsoft Word, these Citation Managers can almost do all your citations for you. Be sure to ask for help if you have difficulties setting things up.

Citation Management Guide
An overview and comparison of different citation managers, including RefWorks, Zotero, EasyBib, and BibMe.
Refworks Guide
Refworks is an online research management, writing and collaboration tool. It is designed to help researchers gather, manage, store and share all types of information, as well as generate citations and bibliographies (from the publisher's website). The Library subscribes to Refworks, so you can set up a free account through our website.
Mendeley
Mendeley is a free reference manager and academic social network. Make your own fully-searchable library in seconds, cite as you write, and read and annotate your PDFs on any device (from the publisher's website).
Zotero
Zotero [zoh-TAIR-oh] is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share your research sources (from the publisher's website).