Select List of Style Manuals and Citation Guides

The following are basic guides that are commonly used for undergraduate work.  For a more extensive list covering more specialized guides, see More Style Manuals and Citation Guides.

Online! A Reference Guide to Using Internet Sources.

• Guidelines for citing electronic media sources such as web pages, chat room and listserv postings, email messages, etc. Covers MLA, APA, Chicago, CBE, and other styles.

MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers

• 6th ed. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2003.
• Perkins Reference Desk LB2369 .G53 2003. Also held in Lilly Ready Reference, Music and Law. Older editions in Divinity and Perkins stacks.
• Updates and details about citing web pages available online.
  
• Originating from the 1951 MLA Style Sheet, the Handbook is intended for undergraduates. Its organization follows the steps one might take in writing a research paper: the research process, mechanics, format, bibliography style, documentation sources, etc. Includes examples of bibliographic citation along with sample typescript pages.

Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA).

• 5th ed. Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association, 2001.
• Perkins Reference Desk BF76.7 .P83 2001. Also in Lilly Ready Reference and Medical Center Reference. Earlier editions in Perkins stacks, Ford, and Medical Center. 
• Updates and details about citing web pages available online. APA also sponsors a web site, Electronic References, which addresses the issue of citing information gathered from electronic media.
• Addresses APA publications and members of graduate and undergraduate psychology departments. Other academic disciplines have adopted this manual as well.

Chicago Manual of Style.

• 15th ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003.
• Perkins Reference Desk Z253 .C53. Also held in Lilly Ready Reference, Bio-Environmental Sciences, Divinity, Marine, Music. Earlier editions in Vesic, Law, Medical, Perkins stacks, and Special Collections.
• The Chicago Manual supports two documentation styles: one for the arts and humanities and one for the social sciences. It stresses common sense and flexibility in written style and documentation.

Turabian, Kate. L. A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations.

• 6th ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.
• Perkins Reference Desk LB2369 .T8 1996. Also held in Perkins stacks, Lilly Ready Reference, Divinity, Music, Ford, Medical Center, and Law.
• Based on the Chicago Manual of Style, Turabian's manual is used frequently in colleges and universities.

Scientific Style and Format: the CBE Manual for Authors, Editors, and Publishers.

• 6th ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
• Perkins Reference Desk T11 .S386 1994. Also in Biology and Environmental Sciences Reference, Marine Lab and Medical Center Reference.
• The 6th edition of this guide now covers all scientific disciplines except for technological fields not closely related to experimental and observational science. It covers styles, mechanics, and special scientific conventions. The section describing how to write and submit papers for journal publication has been removed to allow for the inclusion of more disciplines.