Standard Citation Styles

The major guides are listed below. Most of these guides advise writers about citation styles in particular disciplines; The Chicago Manual of Style and A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations are more general. Style requirements and examples for all types of information sources are included. Your professor may ask you to use a specific style.

1. The ACS Style Guide: A Manual For Authors And Editors. Washington, DC: American Chemical Society, 1997.
UM/Science Ref QD8.5.A25 1997

2. The American Medical Association Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors (AMA). Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins, 1998
UM/Science Ref R119.A533 1998

3.The Chicago Manual of Style. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993.
Main Library Reference Z253.C57 1993

4. A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations. 6th ed. by Kate Turabian. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.
Main Library Reference LB2369.T8 1996

5. Science and technical writing: a manual of style. Edited by Philip Rubens. New York: Routledge, 2001.
UM/Science Ref T11.S378 2001
Main Library Reference T11.S378 2001

6. Scientific style and format: the CBE manual for authors, editors, and publishers (known as "The CBE Manual"). Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
UM/Science Ref T11.S386 1994

7. Style Manual of the American Psychological Association. Washington, DC: APA, 1994.
Main Library Reference BF76.7.A46 1994

See also APA Electronic Style (5th edition from Purdue University) or http://www.apastyle.org/elecsource.html (excerpted from the APA)2. Chicago Manual of Style

8. The MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1995.
Main Library Reference LB2369.G53 1995

Please Note: If you need information on how to use other general style guides, see Karla's Guide to Standard Citation Styles, by Karla Tonella at the University of Iowa.

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