John Spellman Library and Media Center

APA

Research and Documentation Online: A current, comprehensive and well organized resource for APA citation style with illustrative examples and sample papers. Updated to 6th Edition.
http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/resdoc5e/RES5e_ch09_o.html

Purdue University Online Writing Lab (OWL): An overall guide to APA format for writing papers. Updated to reflect 6th edition.
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!  Updated to 6th edition.
http://web.psych.washington.edu/psych.php#p=187

Citing Electronic Sources in APA Format: from the APA itself, updated regularly, this is the most current information on citing electronic sources.  Updated to the 6th edition.
http://www.apastyle.org/elecref.html

APA's Frequently Asked Questions site. Right from the source, in a convenient question-and-answer approach .  Updated to the 6th edition.
http://www.apastyle.org/elecref.html

GHC Nursing Student APA guidelines and checklist. GHC's expectations for Nursing student papers.
http://www.ghc.edu/library/reserves/Nursing/nursing_apa_rubric.htm

MLA

Research and Documentation Online: a current, comprehensive and well organized resource for MLA citation style with illustrative examples and sample papers. Updated to 7th edition.
http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/resdoc5e/RES5e_ch08_o.html

Modern Language Association FAQ: answers questions like "How many spaces after a punctuation mark?" and "How does one alphabetize a number?"  Updated to 7th edition.
http://www.mla.org/handbook_faq

Purdue University Online Writing Lab (OWL): An overall guide to MLA format for writing papers.  Updated to reflect 7th edition.
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/  

Sites Covering Multiple Styles

Highline Community College: a comprehensive, current resource offering pdf guides to APA and MLA citation styles. Also includes links to additional citation sources. Updated to most recent editions.
http://library.highline.edu/findit/citing.php

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. All updated to latest editions.
http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/resdoc5e/

University of Washington: A concise, current resource offering pdf guides to the latest APA, MLA and Chicago citation styles. Also includes links to other citation guides on the web.
http://guides.lib.washington.edu/citations

University of California, Berkeley, Library General Guides: pdf guides to APA, MLA, and Chicago (all updated to current editions as of 2010), 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://www2.liu.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/

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