Style Manuals and Citation Guides

Citation Style Sheets

• Handouts on popular citation styles: APA, Chicago, MLA, Turabian.

For individualized assistance with any step in the writing process please contact the University of South Carolina Writing Center.

• Basic Legal Citations -- Online guide on how to cite the most widely cited forms of legal material. Based on third edition of the ALWD Citation Manual and keyed to The Bluebook (2005 edition); courtesy of Peter W. Martin, Legal Information Institute, Cornell University Law School.

• Citation Guides for Electronic Documents -- links to many style guides and resources on the Internet, courtesy of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA).
   
• Citing ERIC Documents -- provides example citations and instructions for citing ERIC documents in MLA, APA, and Chicago styles.
   
• Citation Guides from Online! -- a Reference Guide to Using Internet Resources -- includes MLA, APA, Chicago, and CBE styles.
   
• Electronic Reference Formats Recommended by the American Psychological Association --  a guide for citing email communications, Web sites, articles in online databases, and more -- APA style.

• EndNote -- Support for configuring and using EndNote with the library catalog and databases.
   
• RefWorks -- Online vendor support including tutorials and FAQs.
   
• ProCite -- Vendor technical support page which includes a listing of database services whose records can be imported.
   
• Zotero -- Free, open source Firefox extension for bibliographic reference mangement. Can integrate with Microsoft Office and OpenOffice.

• American Heritage Guide to English Usage -- "A Practical and Authoritative Guide to Contemporary English."  (This is the 1996 ed.; made available by Project Bartleby.)
   
• Guide to Grammar and Writing -- Prepared by a Professor of English and Humanities for English courses at Capital Community-Technical College (Hartford, CT).  Includes information about proper sentence structure, paragraph development, principles of composition, and more. This site is searchable and has an excellent subject index and FAQ page.
   
• Strunk's Elements of Style -- "aims to give in brief space the principal requirements of plain English style...(and) the rules of usage and principles of composition most commonly violated." (This is the 1st ed., 1918; made available by Project Bartleby.)