Technical Communication: Citation Styles & Citation Management
Selected Online Citation Guides
- Chicago Manual of Style Online
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Provides recommendations on editorial style and publishing practices for the digital age. Funded by donors to the Dean's Fund for Excellence in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences.
- Citing Government DocumentsGuides to citing government documents in APA, MLA, Chicago, and Turabian styles.
- 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.
Citation Management Tool: Zotero
Zotero is a citation management application that allows you to collect book and article citations from the library catalog and other databases. Zotero also connects with your word processor (MS Word, Google Docs, Libre Office) to insert in text citations and generate a reference list in your selected citation style.
See the library guide, Manage Citations with Zotero, on how to use this tool. The Library provides workshops and support for Zotero.
- ZoteroZotero is a free open source citation management tool
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.