CITING SOURCES

The goals of accurate citation are:

1. To credit the author, and
2. To enable the reader to find the material.

Librarians at the Libraries’ Reference Desks will be glad to provide assistance in locating and using these tools.

Please consult your instructor if you have any questions about the citation format you are to follow.

CITING SOURCES

STYLE GUIDES

• American Anthropological Association (AAA): Style Guide
• American Antiquity Citation Style: SAA (Society for American Archaeology) Style Guide
• American Antiquity Citation Style: University of Notre Dame
• American Medical Association (AMA): Style Guide
• American Psychological Association (APA) Style:
  • APA Style Homepage — This is the official APA site.
  • APA Electronic Media & URLs (e-articles, 2007 update)
    
  • APA Citation Style Examples (Owens Library at Northwest Missouri State University)
  • Diana Hacker.  Social Sciences: Documenting Sources
  • Documentation Styles: APA Documentation Style (University of Wisconsin-Madison Writing Center Writer’s Handbook)
  • Documenting Internet Resources (APA Style) (Lake-Sumter Community College)
  • OWL’s Using APA Format (Purdue University Online Writing Lab)
  • Using APA Style to Cite and Document Sources (Bedford St. Martin’s Online!)
  • Creating an Annotated Bibliography in APA style (Cornell University Library)
• American Political Science Association (APSA): Documentation (Style Manual for Political Science, 1993). For the most current edition, use the print Style Manual for Political Science, 2001, MAIN Reference Desk JA 86 .A52.
• CBE Style Using CBE Style to Cite and Document Sources (Biology; Bedford St. Martin’s Online!)
• Chicago Style
  • Using Chicago Style to Cite and Document Sources (Bedford St. Martin’s Online! )
  • Diana Hacker.  Chicago Style: Documenting Sources
  • The Chicago Manual of Style, Bibliographic Format for References (U of Georgia Libraries)
  • Chicago/Turabian Documentation (U of Wisconsin-Madison Writing Center)
• Modern Language Association (MLA) Style:
  • MLA Style: Documenting Sources from the World Wide Web — “authorized by the Modern Language Association of America.”
  • Diana Hacker. Humanities: Documenting Sources
  • OWL’s MLA Format: Giving Credit to Sources
  • Using MLA Style to Cite and Document Sources (Bedford St. Martin’s Online!)

PLAGIARISM: using anyone else’s ideas, words, graphics, music, or other material without giving them credit (citing the material). Paraphrasing and sampling, when the sources are not cited, are examples of plagiarism.

OTHER TOOLS:

RefWorks, citation formatting software is now available, for GVSU users only

Tutorial: APA & MLA Citation, from Eastern Washington University

Bedford St. Martin’s Online! Citation Styles — citing electronic sources

Citing Blogs, from the National Library of Medicine Style Guide

Diana Hacker: Research and Documentation Online

Purdue University Online Writing Lab Resources –Documenting Electronic Sources

Citing Articles Found or Retrieved with InfoTrac, including General Reference Center Gold, Health Reference Center-Academic, and Kid’s Edition

Citing Articles Found or Retrieved with Lexis Nexis

GVSU Writing Center

How to Cite Electronic Sources (& many types of media available online, including films, pictures, legal documents, and reproductions of texts– Library of Congress)

KnightCite — Calvin College Citation Generator

Landmark Citation Machine

NoodleTools – Subscription service:$4.00 for 3 months, $6.00 for 6 months (25% discount), or $8.00 for one year (12 months, 50% discount).

Writing Guidelines for Engineering and Science Students & Documentation of Sources (Virginia Tech)

More information can be found in these books at the University Libraries’ Reference Desks:

• The Chicago Manual of Style, 15th ed. (Chicago IL: University of Chicago Press, 2003), pp. 633-635, 698-699. REF DESK / PE 1478 .U69 2003
• Garner, Diane L., The Complete guide to citing government information resources: a manual for writers & librarians (Bethesda MD: Congressional Information Service, 1993), pp. 151-194. REF DESK / PE 1478 .G37 1993
• Gibaldi, Joseph, MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers (New York: The Modern Language Association of America, 2003). REF DESK / PE 1478 .G52 2003
• Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 5th ed. (Washington, DC: American Pyschological Association, 2001). REF DESK / PE 1479 .P7 P8 2001