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Cite Sources

 

Ready to prepare a bibliography of your research? To do so, consult the following links for examples of commonly-cited types sources--books, articles, online resources, etc. Please see the complete, print style guides listed below and available at the circulation counter for additional citation examples and guidelines.


Citing Print and Electronic Sources
Additional Citation Style Guides
Citation Style Guides in Grinnell College Libraries

 

Citing Print and Electronic Sources

Assembling a List of Works Cited in Your Paper: Duke University

Citation styles covered: APA, Chicago, MLA, Turabian and CBE.

Includes a good variety of example citations for print and electronic sources.

Online! A Reference Guide to Using Internet Sources: Andrew Harnack and Eugene Kleppinger, Bedford/St. Martin's Press.

Citation styles covered: APA, MLA, Chicago and CBE.

Exhaustive listing: how to cite nearly every imaginable electronic source.

Helpful overview of documentation and in-text references.

RefWorks

A Web-based bibliography and database manager that allows you to create your own personal database by importing references from text files or online databases. You can use these references in writing papers and automatically format the paper and the bibliography in seconds.

Sources: Their Use and Acknowledgement: Dartmouth College

Citation styles covered: APA, MLA and the journal Science.

Note styles: MLA and "condensed endnote format" from Science.

Examples mostly of basic print source citations with few electronic.

Style Sheets for Citing Resources (Print and Electronic): University of California-- Berkeley

Citation styles covered: APA, MLA and Chicago-Turabian, all available in PDF format. Excellent series of examples of print and electronic bibliography, footnote and in-text reference entries.

Additional Citation Style Guides

American Anthropological Association (AAA) Style Guide

 

Grinnell College: Writing Lab Citation Links

Links to basic citation guides for sociology, psychology, history, English, anthropology and biology.

Investigations: A Handbook for Biology and Chemistry Courses

Reference guidelines appear on pages 26-27 of this manual developed by Grinnell College science faculty.

Citation Style Guides in Grinnell College Libraries

Chicago Manual of Style

MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing

Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses and Dissertations (Turabian style)

Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA style)

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