Technical Communication: Citation Styles & Citation Management
Selected Online Citation Guides
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OWL - Purdue's Online Writing LabDetailed guide to APA, MLA, and Chicago citation styles. Navigate to "Research and Citation" on the left to access citation style help.
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Citing Government DocumentsGuides to citing government documents in APA, MLA, Chicago, and Turabian styles.
Citation Management Tools
With these tools you can collect book and article citations from the library catalog and databases. Then using a plugin for MS Word, you can insert those citations into your paper in the appropriate format.
See the library guide, Manage Citations with Zotero, Mendeley, and EndNote, on how to use these tools.
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ZoteroZotero is a free, open source citation management tool that comes as a Firefox extension or a standalone program for other browsers. It offers plugins for MS Word and Open Office so you can insert citations as you write your paper.
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MendeleyMendeley is not only a citation manager, it is also a social network for scholars. Download the free desktop app that works on any platform. It has plugins for MS Word and Open Office. Mendeley offers a mobile app too.
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EndNote WebEndNote Web is the web-based version of the long-standing citation management tool. EndNote Web offers a plugin for MS Word so you can insert sources as you write your paper.
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EndNoteEndNote is desktop software for citation management.
Styles by discipline
ACM & IEEE
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) publishes many journals and conference proceedings and has a specific style for formatting references. An excellent guide from Murdoch University on the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers IEEE Style.
Council of Science Editors
A guide from Penn State University Libraries providing an overview of the Council of Science Editors citation system. Many science disciplines use this style.
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
ASME reference style is outlined here.