Research Guides: Style Guides & Manuals: Online Resources

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Alphabetical List of Subject-Focused Research Guides

General & Common Citation Generator Applications

BibMe
Download your bibliography in either the MLA, APA, Chicago or Turabian formats. Resource types include books, periodicals, media & online. BibMe includes basic citation guides & examples. Create an account in order to keep lists of resources organized by groups you create and export bibliographies to a word processor (.rtf files only).
EasyBib
Generate citations in MLA, APA & Chicago formats for your bibliography. Resource types include books, periodicals, media and online.
KnightCite
Manual entry only. Styles include MLA, APA & Chicago. Resources types include books, periodicals, media, and online.
Zotero
Easy to use. Includes the best parts of older reference manager software, such as the ability to store author, title, and publication fields and to export that information as formatted references, and the best aspects of modern software and web applications, such as the ability to organize, tag, and search in advanced ways.

Specific Subject-Oriented Guides and Manuals

The following tools will help you with most of the required styles for your assignments. Many of the Research Guides on specific topics will provide links and guidelines for citing your research sources in those disciplines.

Specific Styles

Anthropology: Chicago Manual of Style, 16th ed.
ACS Style Guide (paper copy)
American Chemical Society
AMA Manual of Style
American Medical Association
Among recent enhancements is the ability to annotate and save sections you find most useful.
A video tour of the site is also available.
American Society of Civil Engineers
ASCE refers users to the Chicago Manual of Style.

APA Formatting and Style Guide
American Psychological Association
Please note: While the explanations and examples on this site are excellent, the citation generator you'll find there is not free or recommended. Please use one of the Citation Generator Applications in the box above.
Hard copy guides:
Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association.
A Guides to APA Documentation.
Chicago Manual of Style
One of the primary styles used in publications. Turabian is based on the Chicago Style and is often used for theses and dissertations.

International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE)
Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals

MLA Formatting and Style Guide
Modern Language Association
Please note: While the explanations and examples on this site are excellent, the citation generator you'll find there is not free or recommended. Please use one of the Citation Generator Applications in the box above.
The most current paper edition of the MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing and the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers can be found by searching for the titles in InfoKat Discovery.

Transactions Style Guide
Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration (SME)
Turabian Citation Style Guide
Paper copies of Turabian's A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations can be located via InfoKat Discovery.

Government Publications

Citing Government Documents
from Columbia University Libraries
U.S. Government Printing Office Style Manual
2016 edition. PDF
Guidelines for use IN government publications.