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Citation Style for Research Papers
Which should you use?
Ask each of your teachers which style they want you to use.
If they have no preference, you can use any or follow these
guidelines:
- APA: psychology, education, and other social
sciences.
- MLA: literature, arts, and humanities.
- AMA: medicine, health, and biological
sciences.
- Turabian: designed for college students
to use with all subjects.
- Chicago: used with all subjects in the
"real world" by books,
magazines, newspapers, and other non-scholarly
publications.
The complete hardcopy style manuals are kept on reserve in the Reference
Department. These contain examples about citing a wider variety of sources than these web pages
do, as well as other things you may need to know, such as margins, font size, etc.
 Styling Time! :
APA, MLA, and Chicago Citation Style Instruction
| Day | Date | Time | Room | |
Day | Date | Time | Room |
Monday
| Apr 22
| 12:30-1:30
| LB 220 | |
Wednesday
| Apr 24
| 12:30-1:30
| LB 220 |
In response to
the many requests for help with citing sources using the APA, MLA, or Chicago citation
styles, the library will be holding these one-hour workshops in the Library Instruction
Lab (LB220) on these dates. The same material will be covered
in each session. Students are encouraged to bring their lists of sources to get hands-on help
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Additional Online Style Guides:
- Research and Documentation Online:
Adapted from the book Research and Documentation in the Electronic Age by Diana Hacker
(Boston, MA : Bedford/St. Martin's, 2006), this site provides examples of citation style,
parenthetical references, manuscript format, and completed papers for the
MLA,
APA,
Chicago, and
CSE (Council of Science Editors) styles.
- Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL):
Created by the English Department at Purdue University, this site covers all aspects of the
academic, business, and creative writing processes (grammar, punctuation, style, rhetoric, outlines, etc.),
along with the
MLA and
APA
styles (the latter with sample papers) and
annotated bibliographies.
Citation Management Tools:
- RefWorks
is a web-based bibliography and database manager
that allows users to create their own personal database by importing references from text
files or online databases. They can use these references in writing their papers and
automatically format the paper and the bibliography in seconds.
- Select "Sign up for an Individual Account" and then choose your
own login name and password.
- EndNote
Web works with ISI Web of Knowledge and other databases to
enable users to save, organize, format, and share their lists of citations.
- Click on the "Sign Up" link to create your individual account and to choose a password.
Robert
Delaney.
robert.delaney@liu.edu
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