Style Guides:
MLA, APA, and Chicago
MLA: Modern Language Association Style Manual
Book – One Author
Yuan, Haiwang. The Magic Lotus Lantern & Other Tales from the Han Chinese.
Westport, Conn.: Libraries Unlimited, 2006. Print.
Book – Multiple Authors
Wysocki, Anne Frances, Johndan Johnson-Eilola, Cynthia L. Selfe, and Geoffrey Sirc.
Writing New Media: Theory and Applications for Expanding the Teaching of
Composition. Logan, UT: Utah State UP, 2004. Print.
Chapter or Essay in a Book
Swanson, Gunnar. "Graphic Design Education as a Liberal Art: Design and Knowledge
in the University and The 'Real World.'" The Education of a Graphic Designer.
Ed. Steven Heller. New York: Allworth Press, 1998. 13-24. Print.
Article in a Periodical (Magazines, Journals)
Bagchi, Alaknanda. "Conflicting Nationalisms: The Voice of the Subaltern in Mahasweta
Devi's Bashai Tudu." Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature 15.1 (1996): 41-50.
Article in a Periodical from a Database
Grabe, Mark. "Voluntary Use of Online Lecture Notes: Correlates of Note Use and Note
Use as an Alternative to Class Attendance." Computers and Education 44
(2005): 409-21. ScienceDirect. Web. 2 February 2010.
Website
The Purdue OWL Family of Sites. The Writing Lab and OWL at Purdue
and Purdue University, 2010. 2 Feb. 2010.
Page on a Website
"How to Make Vegetarian Chili." eHow.com. eHow, n.d. Web. 24 Feb. 2009.
APA: The American Psychological Association Publication Manual
Book – One Author
Yuan, H. (2006). The Magic Lotus Lantern & other tales from the Han Chinese.
Westport, Conn.: Libraries Unlimited.
Book – Multiple Authors
Wysocki, A. F., Johnson-Eilola, J., Selfe, C., & Sirc, G. (2004). Writing new media:
Theory and applications for expanding the teaching of composition. Logan, UT:
Utah State University Press.
Chapter or Essay in a Book
Swanson, G. (1998). "Graphic design education as a liberal art: Design and
knowledge in the university and the 'Real World.'" In Steven Heller (Ed.) The
Education of a Graphic Designer (13-24). New York: Allworth Press.
Article in a Periodical (Magazines, Journals)
Bagchi, A. (1996). "Conflicting nationalisms: The voice of the subaltern in Mahasweta
Devi's Bashai Tudu." Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, 15(1), 41-50.
Article in a Periodical from a Database
Grabe, Mark. (2005) "Voluntary use of online lecture notes: Correlates of note use and
note use as an alternative to class attendance." Computers and Education, 44,
409-21. Retrieved May 28, 2006, from ScienceDirect database.
Website
The Purdue OWL family of sites. (2005). Retrieved April 23, 2006, from
http://owl.english.purdue.edu.
Page on a Website
Stolley, K. (2006). "MLA Formatting and Style Guide." The OWL at Purdue. Retrieved
May 10, 2006, from http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/557/01/.
The Chicago Manual of Style
Book – One Author
Yuan, Haiwang. The Magic Lotus Lantern & Other Tales from the Han Chinese.
Westport, Conn.: Libraries Unlimited, 2006.
Book – Multiple Authors
Wysocki, Anne Frances, Johndan Johnson-Eilola, Cynthia L. Selfe, and Geoffrey Sirc.
Writing New Media: Theory and Applications for Expanding the Teaching of
Composition. Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2004.
Chapter or Essay in a Book
Swanson, Gunnar. "Graphic Design Education as a Liberal Art: Design and Knowledge
in the University and The 'Real World,'" In The Education of a Graphic Designer,
edited by Steven Heller, 13-24. New York: Allworth Press, 1998.
Article in a Periodical (Magazines, Journals)
Bagchi, Alaknanda. "Conflicting Nationalisms: The Voice of the Subaltern in Mahasweta
Devi's Bashai Tudu." Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature 15 (1996): 41-50.
Article in a Periodical from a Database
Grabe, Mark. "Voluntary Use of Online Lecture Notes: Correlates of Note Use and Note
Use as an Alternative to Class Attendance." Computers and Education 44
(2005): 409-21. ScienceDirect. http://www.sciencedirect.com/.
Website
The Purdue OWL Family of Sites. The Writing Lab and OWL at Purdue and Purdue
University. http://owl.english.purdue.edu (accessed April 23, 2006).
Page on a Website
Stolley, Karl. "MLA Formatting and Style Guide." The OWL at Purdue.
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/557/01/ (accessed April 23, 2006).
For more help with style and format, please check out these easy-to-use websites!
The OWL at Purdue: MLA Formatting & Style Guide
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/
The OWL at Purdue: APA Formatting & Style Guide
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/
The Chicago-Style Citation Quick Guide
http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide.html
Citing Your Sources: MLA, APA, Chicago-Turabian
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/instruct/guides/citations.html