KYVL: How to Do Research: Style Manuals

Each academic discipline uses certain conventions for citing information sources. These conventions are described in "style manuals," which illustrate the correct format for in-text (or parenthetical) references, footnotes, endnotes, works cited pages, and/or bibliographies. The following are primary references for these different styles:

APA (American Psychological Association):

Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 4th edition.

Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association, 1994.

APA Style Resources
A Guide for Writing Research Papers based on American Psychological Association (APA) Documentation (Prepared by the Humanities Department at Capital Community-Technical College, Hartford, Connecticut.)
Bibliography Styles Handbook (Writers' Workshop, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Using American Psychological Association (APA) Format (Purdue University Online Writing Lab)

MLA (Modern Language Association):

Gibaldi, Joseph. MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. 5th edition.

New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1999.

Bibliography Styles Handbook (Writers' Workshop, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Using Modern Language Association (MLA) Format (Purdue University Online Writing Lab)

KYVL's How to Do Research tutorial follows the MLA style.

Other style manuals include:

Chicago Manual

*The Chicago Manual of Style*, 14th edition. Chicago: University of Chicago
	Press.1993.

Documentation: Chicago Style (Writer's Handbook, U. of Wisconsin-Madison Writing Center)

Online Resources

Harnack, Andrew and Eugene Kleppinger. Online! A Guide to Using Internet
	*Sources.* New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998.

Online! (Chapters 5-8 of this book are accessible on the Web and explain the use of APA, MLA, Chicago, and CBE styles for citing Internet sources.)

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