Citation Guides

 
RefWorks allows you to import references from online databases, organize your references into folders, and then create bibliographies.  You can select from a variety of style forms (eg APA, MLA).  RefWorks is free to the SMC community and available from any computer with Internet access.
-See Introducing RefWorks handout (.pdf)

MLA Documentation (from Purdue University Writing Lab and OWL at Purdue)
A quick guide to citing resources based on the new MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers 7th ed. (Modern Language Association 2009).

APA Style (from the Ohio State University Libraries)
A quick guide to citing resources based on the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 5th ed. (Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, 2001).

Chicago Style Citation Quick Guide
Citation examples from the Chicago Style website

The Chicago Manual of Style
REF Z 253.U69 2003
Print version of style used by the History Department at Saint Michael's College.

Citing Internet and Online Sources
An overview of electronic citations which includes MLA and APA style examples.

 

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