Guides: First Year Guide: Citing Sources

Keep in mind:

Scholarship as Conversation
Communities of scholars, researchers, or professionals engage in sustained discourse with new insights and discoveries occurring over time as a result of varied perspectives and interpretations.

Information Creation as a Process
Information in any format is produced to convey a message and is shared via a selected delivery method. The iterative processes of researching, creating, revising, and disseminating information vary, and the resulting product reflects these differences.

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Citation Starting Points

Citation Fox - MLA
Style guides featuring a large number of example citations for books and journals along with many not-so-frequently encountered source types used in the humanities. From the SUNY Albany Libraries.
OWL: Purdue Online Writing Lab
The OWL provides online resources for using APA, MLA, and Chicago documentation styles.

Why we cite

This video from NCSU helps explain the importance of citing your sources!

Major Style Guides

Chicago Manual of Style This link opens in a new window
Guide to researching, writing, and documenting sources in the humanities and social sciences.
Print edition is available at Burke Research Desk Z253 .U69 2017.

MLA Handbook
Call Number: Burke Research Desk LB2369 .M52 2021
Guide to researching, writing, and documenting sources in English and the humanities. See the MLA Style Center for FAQs and explanations of core elements.
Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association by American Psychological Association
Call Number: Burke Research Desk BF76.7 .P83 2020
Guide to researching, writing, and documenting sources in the social sciences. See the APA Reference Examples page and the APA Style Blog for examples and explanations.

RefWorks

RefWorks is a research and citation management service you can use to create bibliographies, format footnotes, and organize information that you import from the library's databases and other online sources. Footnotes and bibliographies created with RefWorks are only as good as the information you import. You will still need to edit some references. For help with that, refer to the library's guide to citing sources.

First Year Guide: Citing Sources