Style Guides and Manuals 

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Alphabetical List of Research Guides by Subject

For most research you will do at the university, you will need to document the sources you use in a particular style for each assignment. The style will usually be specified by your professor or the discipline in which you are working. For example, psychology and many other social science disciplines use the American Psychological Association (APA) Style for citing resources. If your professor does not specify a style guide or manual to follow, ask which one you should use.

Several online tools are available to help you format your endnotes and bibliographies; select the Online Resources tab above to learn about these. You can also use the published paper style manual for your discipline--many of them are available in the Libraries' collections. Use the Paper Resources tab to learn about these. Some online databases that help you find resources will also format your citations in various styles for you, and you can also use software that will manage your citations for you, downloading them directly from the databases you search (e.g., EndNote); use the Formatting Tools tab to learn about these.

Both APA and MLA have recently released new editions of their style guides.