Citation & Style Guides
Key Print Sources for Citation, Documentation & Referencing
Links are to entries in the Library Catalogue
Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association,5th ed. Washington, DC : American Psychological Association, c2001.
Gibaldi, Joseph, MLA style manual and guide to scholarly publishing. 2nd ed. New York : Modern Language Association of America, 1998.
Lovell, David W and Moore, Rhonda D. Essay writing and style guide for politics and the social sciences. Canberra. Australasian Political Studies Association, 1992.
Li, Xia and Crane, Nancy B. Electronic styles : a handbook for citing electronic information. 2nd. Ed. Medford, N.J. : Information Today, 1996.
Purchase, Shirley. The Little Book of Style. Canberra : AusInfo, Dept. of Finance and Administration, c1998.
Turabian, Kate L. A manual for writers of term papers, theses, and dissertations 6th ed. / rev. by John Grossman and Alice Bennett. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1996
The Chicago manual of style 14th ed., Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1993.
Uniform System of Citation Various editions.
University of Sydney. Dept. of History.
A short guide to the writing and presentation of papers and essays
Various editions.
For further references search the Online Catalogue using the subject headings:
- Authorship Style manuals
- Academic writing -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Citation Of Legal Authorities
- Citation of electronic information resources
- Chicago Guides To Writing Editing And Publishing
- Dissertations, Academic -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Humanities authorship
- Manuscript preparation authorship
- Medical writing handbooks manuals etc
- Printing style manuals
- Proposal Writing
- Technical writing handbooks manuals etc
- Research Methodology Handbooks, Manuals etc
- Report Writing
General Guides to Citation & Style
Bates College. Ladd Library. Citation and Style Guide.
Excellent directory of sources for citation and style, includes college guidelines for plagiarism and specific disciplines.
url: http://abacus.bates.edu/Library/resources/reference/citation.shtml
Sources Their Use and Acknowledgment
Dartmouth College(US) guide to academic citation.
url: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~sources/
Harvard Style
A guide to documenting sources of information : an outline of the author-date (Harvard) citation style and footnoting style 3rd ed.[Canberra] : University of Canberra Library, 1999. Fisher Research 010.44 13
Harvard Referencing from the Business School at the University of Central England, UK
Harvard Referencing from Curtin University(WA) Library (pdf)
Referencing & Citation, Harvard Style from the University of Queensland Library
University of Sydney Departmental Citation Guides
Notes on the Presentation and Documentation of Essays
url: http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/departs/english/undergrad/need_to_know/essay_presentation.shtml
Spate, Virginia. Guide to Writing an Essay in Art History and Theory
url: http://teaching.arts.usyd.edu.au/ArtHistory/ARHT1002/EssayGuide.html
University of Sydney. Department of Linguistics. Writing and presenting papers and essays
url: http://teaching.arts.usyd.edu.au/linguistics/lngs1005/writing-material/style.htm
University of Sydney. Department of Anthropology. Assignments and Readings: Preparation Guidelines
url: http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/departs/anthro/undergrad/style.shtml
University of Sydney. School of Psychology. Guides to Writing in Psychology
url: http://www.psych.usyd.edu.au/teach/studentresources/writingguides/writingguides.html
Writing Physics Essays
url: http://www.physics.usyd.edu.au/ugrad/essay_writing.html
Internet Guides to Specific Citation Styles
Documenting Sources from the World Wide Web
Modern Languages Association,
Part of a FAQ on MLA Style
url: http://www.mla.org/publications/style/style_faq/style_faq4
APA Style
Electronic Reference Formats Recommended by the American Psychological Association
url: http://www.apastyle.org/elecref.html
Dewey, Russ, APA Publication Manual Crib Sheet
url: http://www.wooster.edu/psychology/apa-crib.html
American Anthropological Association Style Guide and Electronic Submission Information.
"The American Anthropological Association uses The Chicago Manual of Style and Webster's Tenth New Collegiate Dictionary. This guide is an
outline of Chicago and AAA style rules used for all books and journals edited and produced in-house by the AAA Publications Department. "
url: http://www.aaanet.org/pubs/style_guide.htm
Curtin University Information Sheets for Referencing
Includes information sheets for
American Psychological Association (APA)
Harvard &
University of Queensland Citation Useits Guides
Guides Available for Harvard,
Vancouver,
AGPS, APA
, MLA Styles
and
FootnotesChicago 14th B Style
url: http://www.library.uq.edu.au/useit/
The Columbia guide to Online Citation
Janice R.Walker and Todd Taylor, University of Florida , A guide to locating, translating, and using the elements of citation for both a humanities style (i.e., MLA and Chicago) and a
scientific style (APA and CBE) for electronically-accessed sources.
url: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup/cgos/idx_basic.html
Bedford Martins Summary of Citation Styles
Summary citation guidelines for MAL, APA, Chicago & CBE.
url: http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/online/citex.html
Resources for Authors
American College of Physicians-American Society of Internal Medicine
Includes Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals, Journals in the Uniform Requirements For Manuscripts Submitted to
Biomedical Journals Agreement as of January 1997, Guidelines for Statistical Reporting in Articles for Medical Journals
and Information for Annals Authors.
url: http://www.icmje.org/
Uncle Sam : Brief Guide to Citing Government Publications
Government Publications Department, Regional Depository Library, The University of Memphis,
Last updated: Wednesday, January 14, 1998
url: http://exlibris.memphis.edu/govpubs/citeweb.htm
Latin Abbreviations
A list of latin abbreviations and their meanings.
url: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Latin_abbreviations
Yale Web Style Guide
Patricj J. Lynch's Guide to Web Style
url: http://info.med.yale.edu/caim/manual/
Guides to Electronic Style
ISO Standards
Excerpts from International Standard IS 690-2: Bibliographic references to electronic documents
url: http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/iso/tc46sc9/standard/690-2e.htm
Citing Electronic Information in History Papers
Discussion and critique of existing solutions to electronic citation in relation to history papers.
Includes links to style guides discussed in the essay and examples and models for different electronic formats.
url: http://cas.memphis.edu/~mcrouse/elcite.html
Page, Melvin E. A Brief Citation Guide for Internet Sources in History and the Humanities
Produced by Melvin E. Page , East Tennessee State University and based on the citation principles in Kate L. Turabian, *A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations,
*5th ed. (Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1987). These guidelines were first posted to the discussion group H-AFRICA .
The guide includes bibliographic citation , footnote and endnote examples for Listserv messages, World Wide Web, FTP sites, Gopher sites, Usenet Group Messages and E-mail messages.
url: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/cite.html
American Anthropological Association Style Guide
url: http://www.aaanet.org/pubs/style_guide.htm
A Brief Guide to Citation of Sources in Anthropology
Adapted from the American Anthropological Association Citations guidelines by Skidmore College.
url: http://www.skidmore.edu/www/academics/anthropology/cite.html
Caron, Rosaire.Documents Electroniques : Comment citer un document electronique?
Style guide produced by the University of Laval, France. In French.
url: http://www.bibl.ulaval.ca/doelec/doelec28.html
Citation styles for Internet and electronic resources University of Alberta Libraries.
url: http://www.library.ualberta.ca/guides/citation/index.cfm
Documenting electronic resources
Includes citation resources for different subject areas and a specific guide for electronic sources.
url: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_docsources.html
International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) (1996, March 15) Citation Guides for Electronic Documents.
IFLA (International Federation of Library Associations) guide to sources for citing electronic references. This guide is a comprhensive collection of Electronic Sources, Books,
Software and Notes from E-mail on electronic citation.
url: http://www.ifla.org/I/training/citation/citing.htm
Internet Public Library: Citing Electronic Sources
Good collection of online citation guides and listing of printed references.
url: http://www.ipl.org/ref/QUE/FARQ/netciteFARQ.html
Thesis and report writing
This website includes sections on finding a theses, getting theses from University of Sydney and elsewhere, preparing and writing your thesis, submitting your thesis and where to get help.
url: http://www.library.usyd.edu.au/theses/index.html
Australian Copyright
Australian Copyright Council
The Australian Copyright Council's Online Information Centre has an excellent collection of fact sheets
covering various aspects of Australian copyright. Fact sheests include Copying for Research and Study;
Historians and Copyright; Quotes and Extracts: copyright obligation & Fair dealing in the digital age.
These publications are available for downloading in PDF format.
url: http://www.copyright.org.au
National Library of Australia Submission to the Copyright Law Review Committee
Submission to the Copyright Law Review Committee on the Reference to Review and Simplify the Copyright Act 1968
url: http://www.nla.gov.au/policy/clrc.html
Copyright, Fairuse & Censorship Issues
Centre for Democracy and Technology
United States Communications Decency Act Issues Page
url: http://www.cdt.org/
EFF "Intellectual Property Online: Patent, Trademark, Copyright" Archive"
url: http://www.eff.org/IP/
Information Policy: Copyright and Intellectual Property
Bibliography of essays and resources for copyright and fairuse issues produced by the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions.
url: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/irg-04.htm
Internet Censorship
From epic Electronic Privacy Information Center.
url: http://www.epic.org/free_speech/censorship/
Citizens Internet Empowerment Coalition (CIEC)
Opposition to the US Communications Decency Act.
url: http://www.hotwired.com/special/lawsuit/
Varian, Hal. R. (1996, February 13) The Information Economy.
Article by Hal R. Varian , Dean of the School of Information Management and Systems at the University of Calfornia at Berkeley.
url: http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/resources/InfoEcon/