Guides: Public Humanities: Cite Sources

Style Manuals

The primary reasons for citing sources in a research paper are to give credit to the authors whose work you have drawn upon and to allow readers to track down your sources, should they wish to do so.

MLA Handbook
Call Number: LB2369 .G53 2016
Locations: Lauinger Reference Stacks
MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing
Call Number: PN147 .G444 2008
Locations: Lauinger Reference Desk
Chicago Manual of Style
Call Number: Z253 .U69 2017
Location: Lauinger Reference

Chicago Manual of Style Online This link opens in a new window
Electronic version of one of the most used style guides for writing in American English. Provides rules and suggestions for bibliographies and other forms of documentation such as parenthetical references, footnotes, and endnotes. Includes instructions on how to cite electronic and online sources. Also contains a chapter on grammar and usage (punctuation, spelling, etc.).

Citation Guides

Purdue's OWL
Purdue's OWL (Online Writing Lab) provides guides to MLA, APA, and Chicago styles, as well as advice on research, writing and citation.
MLA Guide
Covers the basics of citing sources using the 8th edition of the MLA Handbook.
Turabian Footnote/Endnote Style
Examples of the basics of citing sources using Turabian footnote/endnote style. Based on Chicago style.
Turabian Parenthetical Reference Style
Examples of the basics of citing sources using Turabian parenthetical reference style. Based on Chicago style.

Citation Managers

The following tools can be used to organize your research, format citations, and create bibliographies.

RefWorks This link opens in a new window
RefWorks is an online research management, writing, and collaboration tool designed to help researchers gather, manage, store, and share information and generate citations and bibliographies.

Zotero
Zotero is a free tool designed to help you gather, manage and share information about books, articles, web pages and other digital objects that you are using in your research, and to generate citations and bibliographies. Zotero is a Mozilla browser plugin. You can choose to gather your data on your hard drive (if you are working mainly from one computer), or on a flash drive or a network (if you frequently access your data at multiple workstations).