Citation and Style Guidelines

This page lists some sites that link to a variety of common style and citation guides.

IFLA Citation Guides for Electronic Documents

Research and Documentation Online
A guide by Diana Hacker that shows how to format a research paper and its bibliography according to MLA, APA and CBE formats.

MLA Style Guides

MLA Format
MLA style guide put together by the Writers' Workshop at the University of Illinois.

MLA Bibliographic Style
Brief MLA style guide prepared at the University of Michigan.

APA Style Guides

APA Format
APA style guide put together by the Writers' Workshop at the University of Illinois.

APA Style Guide Tutorial
General information useful for compiling a bibliography based on APA style presented by the University of Southern Mississippi.

Electronic Reference Formats Recommended by the American Psychological Association
Information from the APA on how to cite electronic sources.

Web Extension to American Psychological Associaton Style
The newest modifications to APA's guidelines on how to cite electronic documents. Links in the bibliography to some style guides.

Chicago Manual of Style

Chicago Manual of Style
Useful information about how to cite references using the Chicago Manual of Style. Try clicking on Tools, for instance, to access the Chicago-style citation quick guide. The Q&A section also has some interesting information.

Turabian Style Guide

Citation Guide - Turabian
From Concordia University Libraries

AAA Style Guides

American Anthroppological Association (AAA) Style Guide
This guide is an outline of style rules basic to AAA style.

Other

Brief Guide to Citing Government Publications
How to cite a variety of government publications according to the Chicago Manual of Style.

Grammar and Compositional Style Guides

American Heritage Book of English Usage

Guide to Grammar and Writing
Guide to English grammar and composition. Includes quizzes to test your knowledge of grammar, an AskGrammar link where you can ask a grammar question via email, and an archive of previously asked grammar questions.

Elements of Style
1918 edition of Strunk and White's Elements of Style.

An Onine English Grammar
A fairly basic English grammar.

Guide to Grammar and Style
A variety of grammatical rules, comments on style, and usage suggestions.

Writer's Handbook
A handbook from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Writing Center. There is a particularly useful section on how to write annotated bibliographies.