Citing Sources

You must know citation requirements before you begin your research, so you can record the data you need at the time you locate it. Use the citation style preferred by your instructor. For general research, MLA is often chosen.

• APA Style
• Chicago/Turabian Style
• MLA Style
• Annotated Bibliography

APA Style

Title: Publication manual of the American Psychological Association

Copies at Seminole State:

Links:

• APA Electronic Reference Formats (excerpted from the fifth edition of American Psychological Association Publication Manual)
• APA Publication Manual Crib Sheet (Russ Dewey Georgia Southern University)
• APA Style Resources (Psych Web)
• Citation Styles Online (Bedford/St. Martin's)
• Reference: Electronic Resources (Purdue University online writing lab)
• Social Sciences: Documenting Sources (Hacker, Dana, 1999)
• Writing APA Style (Jacksonville State University)

Chicago/Turabian Style

Chicago

Title: The Chicago manual of style. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993.

Copies at Seminole State:

Links:

• Citation Styles Online (Bedford/St. Martin's)
• Chicago Style (an online guide to citing Internet sources)
• Documentation: Chicago Style (University of Wisconsin-Madison Writing Center)

Turabian

Title: A manual for writers of term papers, theses and dissertations." Kate L. Turabian. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.

Copies at Seminole State:

Links:

• Turabian Samples for a Bibliography (Ithaca College Library; based on the sixth edition of Turabian's Manual)
• Turabian Style: Sample Footnotes and Bibliographic Entries (sixth edition; Bridgewater State College)
• Turabian Style Guide (University of Southern Mississippi)

MLA Style

Title: MLA handbook for writers of research papers/Joseph Gibaldi. New York: Modern Language Association of America.

Copies at Seminole State:

Links:

• Citation Styles Online (Bedford/St. Martin's)
• MLA Style (Modern Language Association for online sources)
• Using Modern Language Association (MLA) Format (Purdue)

Annotated Bibliography

• Annotated Bibliographies (Purdue)
• How to Prepare an Annotated Bibliography (Cornell University)
• How to Write an Annotated Bibliography (UCSC)
• How to Write Annotated Bibliographies (University of Newfoundland)

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