10. Citation Guides
Guides to citing electronic information resources:
Walker, Janice R. The Columbia guide to online style.
New York: Columbia University Press, 1998.
Widener: RR 2117.45.10
Lamont: REF.ROOM PN171.F56 W35 1998
Columbia Guide to Online Style
This site has basic information (excerpts from the print edition) and other information about the Guide.
Useful Web sites
Online: a reference guide to using internet sources
Detailed advice for citing online sources. “Citation styles” gives links to descriptions of MLA, APA, Chicago and CBE styles as well as citation styles for WWW sites, e-mail messages, listservs, newsgroups, etc.
Guides developed by university centers and libraries
University of Wisconsin Writing Center Writer’s Handbook
Links to examples of notes for articles, books, interviews, performances, secondary sources, unpublished material, with first, second and subsequent references. Also provides a link to information on bibliographies and sample entries.
Ohio State University Libraries’ Chicago Manual of Style form guide
Contains links to samples of scientific and humanities styles and electronic resource citation.
Journalism
Sources Guide, University of Iowa
A listing of sites, with an emphasis on electronic resource citation sources and guides.
Print sources for citation styles and documentation
The Chicago manual of style. 14th ed. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press,
1993.
Widener: RR 2117.4.2 Library has: 2 copies (one is kept behind the
Reference Desk)
Lamont: REF.ROOM Z253.U69 1993
Lamont: Z253.U69 1993
Lamont: REF.ROOM READY REF. Z253.U69 1993
The most thoroughly revised portion of the 14th edition deals with documentation, with individual cases easier to find. Chapter 15 is devoted to a complete treatment of the humanities style of documentation, using notes and bibliographies. Chapter 16 covers the author-date style, brief author-date citations in the text amplified in lists of references with full bibliographic information.
Gibaldi, Joseph. MLA Handbook for writers of research papers.
6th ed. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2003.
Widener: RR 2117.3.3.2
Widener: WID-LC LB2369.G53 2003
Cabot Science: REF LB2369.G53 2003
Gutman Education Ref. LB2369.G53 2003
A companion publication to the MLA style manual, the Handbook covers some of the same topics: the basics of scholarly writing, citing sources, preparing a list of works, citing sources, and the Appendix, “Other systems of documentation.” The Handbook also includes chapters on research and writing, the mechanics of writing, the use of documentation, the format of the research paper and selected reference works by field.
Gibaldi, Joseph. MLA style manual and guide to scholarly
publishing. 2nd ed. New York:
Modern Language Association of America, 1998.
Widener: RR 2117.7.5; Widener: Harvard Depository
Lamont: REF.ROOM PN147.G444 1998
Lamont: PN147.G444 1998
Lamont: REF.ROOM READY REF. PN147.G444 1998
As mentioned above, the MLA style guide’s second edition includes information on the mechanics of writing and emphasizes stylistic conventions and detail on preparing manuscripts, theses and dissertations. The volume begins with an overview of scholarly publishing, process and productions considerations and legal issues.
