Citing & Evaluating Research

Citing your resources: Print and Electronic Style Guides

• Research and Documentation Online. Guide to the major documentation styles, print and electronic: MLA (Humanities); APA (Social Sciences); Chicago Manual of Style (History); CBE (Science).
• Style Sheets for Citing Resources - Quick guides to the major styles from UC Berkeley.
• Styles of Documenting - UPenn Documenting Information
• AP Stylebook Online
• APA Electronic Style
• ASA Quick Style Guide (American Sociological Association)
• ASCE Style (American Society of Civil Engineers)
• Basic Legal Citation
• Guide for Preparing Manuscripts for Criminology (American Society of Criminologists)
• Citation Styles (excerpted from Online! A Reference Guide to Using Internet Sources by Andrew Harnack and Eugene Kleppinger)
• Chicago Manual of Style Online
• MLA Electronic Style Links to the MLA site for individual Handbook owners. Use Research and Documentation Online above instead.
• ICMJE Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals (also known as the Vancouver Style) - Samples of reference citation formats. More samples.
• Purdue University Online Writing Lab, Research and Citation Resources (provides help with most citation formats)

    Style manuals available at Falvey Library

• Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association. (APA Style). Washington, DC : American Psychological Association, 2001.  Information desk  BF76.7 .P83 2001)
• The Chicago Manual of Style. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1993. Information desk Z253.U69 2003)
• Chicago Manual of Style Online
• MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2009. Information desk LB2369 .G53 2009)
• A Writer's Reference by Diana Hacker. Boston : Bedford/St. Martin's, c1999. Information desk PE1408 .H2778 2003

Evaluating Web sites and other information sources

• Evaluating Sources Of Information
  From James Madison University Library. (It's one module of a comprehensive tutorial. The exercises are limited to use by their students.)
• Evaluating Internet Information
  Johns Hopkins University Library. Provides a discussion of the criteria by which scholars in most fields evaluate print information, and shows how the same criteria can be used to assess information found on the Internet.
• Evaluating Web Content (SUNY Albany Libraries)