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A standard style manual will help you cite your electronic, print, and Internet sources correctly and with a minimum of frustration.
The Reference staff have created "How to Use" guides and provided links to the APA Style and MLA Style manuals. These manuals
have sections on government documents citation standards that are useful if you are required to use them.
General Style Guides
APA Style Manual: How to Use Guide
Created by L.Rich, BGSU Reference Department.
- Electronic Style -- APA
- Electronic Reference Formats Recommended by the American Psychological Association. This web site was created by APA.
MLA Style (Modern Language Association) : How to Use Guide/a>
This brief guide was created by C. Cardwell BGSU Reference Department.
Citing Sources: Assembling a List of Works Cited in Your Paper
- Created and maintained by Duke University's Library.
- Includes how to cite articles from journals, magazines, books, book reviews government documents, newspapers, primary sources,
web pages and online postings.
- Each section presents an example of a citation in the following formats: APA, Chicago Style, MLA and Turabian.
Citation Style for Research Papers
Check out this site created by Robert Delaney at the B. Davis Schwartz Memorial Library. Mr. Delaney has created brief guides
to several style manuals including:
- APA
- Turabian
- MLA
- Chicago
- and AMA
- He also includes a general guide to citing internet resources.
Guides to Citing Government Documents
Government Documents can be difficult to cite. The citation elements vary slightly from those elements generally cited. It
is often useful to consult a style guide that is specific for government documents.
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Uncle Sam- Brief Guide to Citing Government Publications, University of Memphis
- Step by step guide to citing government publications based on the Citing Government Information Resources style guide written by Diane Garner and Diane Smith.
- This site has easy to follow explanations and plenty of examples.
A number of links to citation manuals are provided by the Documents Center, University. of Michigan Citation Guides
Citation Guides for Electronic Documents
Created and maintained by IFLA (The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions)
DocsCite
- Automatic documents citation program provided by Arizona State U. Libraries
- The site formats the citation elements for you in the style you selected.
Reference Books on Citation
If you need more information on how to cite your sources, the books below are available behind the Jerome Library information/Reference.
Citing Government Information Resources
by Diane Garner and Diane Smith. (REF DESK J9.5 .G376 1993)
MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers.
5th Ed. New York: MLA 1999. (REF DESK LB2369 .G53 1999),
Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association.
5th Ed. Wash., D.C.: APA, 2001. (REF DESK BF76.7 .P83 2001)
A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations
Kate L. Turabian. 6th Ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996 (REF DESK LB2369 .T8 1996)
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