Documentation Styles

This page contains information on different documentation styles. For the details of documenting sources, we encourage you to consult a published style manual directly rather than using secondary sources.

For each documentation style listed here, we first provide a link to the organization that issues the style manual. In addition to this, we offer you links to other credible websites to which you can refer if you do not have access to the required style manual.

American Chemical Society (ACS Style)
http://pubs.acs.org/page/books/styleguide/index.html

American Psychological Association (APA Style)
http://www.apastyle.org/learn/tutorials/basics-tutorial.aspx
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/583/01/
APA Sample Paper

The Chicago Manual of Style (Chicago Style)
http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide.html

Council of Science Editors (CSE Style)
http://www.resourcenter.net/Scripts/4Disapi07.dll/4DCGI/store/item.html?Action=StoreItem&Item=13693&LoginPref=1
http://library.duke.edu/research/plagiarism/cite/cse.html

Kate L. Turabian Style
http://www.press.uchicago.edu/books/turabian/turabian_citationguide.html

Modern Language Association of America (MLA Style)
http://www.mla.org/style
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/
MLA Sample Paper