Citation & Style Guide

This guide will help you find the best tools and resources on citation and style.

• A style guide or style manual is a set of standards for the writing and design of documents, either for general use or for a specific publication, organization or field.
• A style guide provides uniformity in style and formatting within a document and across multiple documents.
• Your professor will tell you which citation style to use for your paper or thesis. If not, the following list provides a general guide:
  • APA: Psychology, Education
  • ASA: Sociology
  • CBE/CSE: Biology, Natural Sciences, Neuroscience
  • Chicago/Turabian: History, Art History, Political Science
  • MLA (8th edition or 9th edition): English, Humanities

Recommendations are evolving.  The following are links to guidance from the major citation styles:  Be sure to ask your professor IF, when, or how you can use Artifical Intelligence / Large Language Models (LLM's) such as Chat GPT. Their requirements for citing AI use may be different.  If in doubt, ask them!