Thomas W. Cole Library's Home on LibGuides: Citation Help

The APA Citation Style Guide created by Purdue's OWL provides you step by step instruction and examples of correct in-text citation, reference page creation, and APA formatting.

Official APA style website from the American Psychological Association.

From the Writing Center at the University of Wisconsin- Madison

An online tool that creates citations in the Council of Science Editors (CSE) citation style.

CSE format requires the use of correct journal abbreviations; this site gives a variety of sources for this information.

Quick Guide from the Publisher of CSE Format

Includes separate links with sample references for both "Name-Year" and "Citation Sequence" styles in CSE.

Kate L. Turabian’s Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations presents two basic documentation systems: notes-bibliography style (or simply bibliography style) and author-date style (sometimes called reference list style). These styles are essentially the same as those presented in The Chicago Manual of Style, sixteenth edition, with slight modifications for the needs of student writers.

The MLA Citation Style Guide created by Purdue's OWL provides you step by step instruction and examples of correct in-text citation, works cited page creation, and MLA formatting.