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APA Style     |    MLA Style    |    Other Styles    | Citation Generators

APA Style
APA Style is the style used by the American Psychology Association and is used in most social science courses including Anthropology, Psychology, Education and Law. Check out these guides to help you format your APA paper:

DianaHacker.com explains APA style and offers citation examples and a sample APA paper

The OWL at Purdue is an easy to follow guide that takes you step-by-step through a real APA formatted paper and offers tips for producing your final paper

Cañada College Library's APA Style Guide is an easy to follow guide that takes you step-by-step through a real APA formatted paper and offers tips for producing your final paper

MLA Style
MLA Style is the style used by the Modern Language Association and is used in most humanities, literature and arts courses including English, History, Literature and Art. Check out these guides to help you format your MLA paper:

DianaHacker.com explains MLA style and offers citation examples and a sample MLA paper

The OWL at Purdue - Purdue's Writing Lab has assembled an excellent guide designed to help students assemble their MLA-style papers, step-by-step, from the first page to the last and everything in between

Other Styles
In addition to APA and MLA formatting, the most common formatting styles, there are other formatting styles that instructors may request you use:

Chicago Style is a style based on the Chicago Manual of Style and is a guide to everything from grammar to formatting. See our copy of the Chicago Manual of Style in the library (REF Z253.U69 2003), or see Ohio State University's guide to Chicago Style citations to help with your bibliography

Turabian Style is very similar to Chicago Style, but it is a simplified version designed for student papers rather than professional publishing. This style is based on the book A manual for writers of term papers, theses, and dissertations (REF LB2369.T8 1996), or see Ohio State University's guide to Turabian citations to help with your bibliography

Citation Generators
Online citation generators take some of the guesswork out of citing sources and let you instantly create correctly formatted citations for both print and electronic reosurces in APA, MLA, Chicago and Turabian styles. They are a fast and easy way to learn how to correctly cite resources in various media. Make sure to always check your work against the correct style manual:

Citation Machine - developed by the non-profit Landmark Project. Offers APA, MLA, Chicago and Turabian citation styles

Knight Cite - designed and run by Calvin College. Generates citations in APA, MLA and Chicago styles

SourceAid - Create citations in APA, MLA, Chicago and Council of Science Editors (CSE) styles