PHI 172 / Ferguson: Citing Sources

Advice on how to paraphrase, when to give credit, and deciding what is common knowledge, from Purdue University's Online Writing Lab (OWL).

Guidelines for research, writing, and citing sources, from Purdue University's Online Writing Lab (OWL).

The Academic Center for Excellence (ACE) is located in the Old Gym Building. It offers workshops and tutoring for undergraduate and graduate students seeking to improve their skills in humanities-related subject areas, including citation styles.

Guide to various citation styles using a color-coded strategy.

APA (American Psychological Association) is most commonly used to cite sources within the social sciences. This resource, revised according to the 6th edition, second printing of the APA manual, offers examples for the general format of APA research papers, in-text citations, endnotes/footnotes, and the reference page.

MLA (Modern Language Association) style is most commonly used to write papers and cite sources within the liberal arts and humanities. This resource, updated to reflect the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers (7th ed.) and the MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing (3rd ed.), offers examples for the general format of MLA research papers, in-text citations, endnotes/footnotes, and the Works Cited page.

The Chicago Manual of Style (CMS) covers a variety of topics from manuscript preparation and publication to grammar, usage, and documentation. The material in this resource focuses primarily on the two CMS documentation styles: the Notes-Bibliography System (NB), which is used by those in literature, history, and the arts, and the Author-Date System, which is preferred in the sciences.

BibMe is a free automatic citation creator that supports MLA, APA, Chicago, and Turabian formatting. BibMe leverages external databases to quickly fill citation information for you.

Citation Machine helps students and professional researchers to properly credit the information that they use.

KnightCite is an online citation generator service provided by the Hekman Library of Calvin College.

Learn to use RefWorks, a citation management tool available to all members of the Lehman College community, by using this how-to guide.