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APA

Research and Documentation Online: A current, comprehensive and well organized resource for APA citation style with illustrative examples and sample papers.
http://www.dianahacker.com/resdoc/p04_c09_s2.html

Purdue University Online Writing Lab (OWL): An overall guide to APA format for writing papers.  Scroll to the bottom for an index of help with citations.
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/

University of Washington Psychology Writing Center: Another overall guide to writing in psychology and other social sciences.  Includes guides for citations about half-way down the page. One of the guides contains a quiz to let you test your capabilities with APA citations!
http://web.psych.washington.edu/writingcenter/writingguides.html

Citing Electronic Sources in APA Format: from the APA itself, updated regularly, this is the most current information on citing electronic soures
http://www.apastyle.org/elecref.html

MLA

Research and Documentation Online: A current, comprehensive and well organized resource for MLA citation style with illustrative examples and sample papers.
http://www.dianahacker.com/resdoc/p04_c08_s2.html


Modern Language Association FAQ: answers questions like "How many spaces after a punctuation mark?" and "How does one alphabetize a number?"
http://www.mla.org/style_faq

Sites Covering Multiple Styles

Research and Documentation Online: A current, comprehensive and well organized resource for almost every citation style with illustrative examples and sample papers. Also includes lists of sources to begin research.
http://www.dianahacker.com/resdoc/home.html


University of California, Berkeley, Library General Guides: pdf guides to APA, MLA, and Chicago, with patterns and examples.
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/Help/guides.html

Long Island University Library: uses color-coding to highlight elements in the examples of APA, MLA, Chicago, AMA, and Turabian
http://www.liunet.edu/cwis/cwp/library/workshop/citation.htm

University of North Carolina Library: pdf guides to APA, MLA, Chicago, Turabian, and CHT
http://library.uncg.edu/depts/ref/qil/styles.asp

Citation Builders (A word of caution: these are convenient, but sometimes make mistakes.  So, check the results carefully!)

North Carolina State University's automated builder asks you first for the basic information, than generates results in MLA, APA, CBE/CSE (a format not used by anyone at GHC!), and Chicago.
http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/lobo2/citationbuilder/citationbuilder.php

Landmark's Son of Citation Machine asks you first to chose the format you wish (APA, MLA, Chicago, or Turabian) then has you enter the basic information.
http://citationmachine.net/

Calvin College's KnightCite similarly has you first choose your desired format (APA, MLA, or Chicago.)
http://www.calvin.edu/library/knightcite//a>
APA | MLA | Multiple Styles  | Citation Builders

 

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