Philosophy

Elon's Writing Center will help you with understanding an assignment, brainstorming, drafting, revising, editing, &  documenting sources.

The zotero Citation Manager is a free, easy to use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share your research sources.

Follow these steps to start building your own Zotero Library:

General

• Elon University Special Collection & Archives citation guide - guide for citing materials and collections in the Belk Library Archives and Special Collections.
• Citation Builder - the Citation Builder is a tool instructors can use to teach students to create basic citations in MLA, APA, and CBE/CSE formats. Available from NC State library.
• Citation Guides for Electronic Documents - from IFLAnet.
• Citation Machine - Citation Machine is an interactive Web tool designed to assist teachers and students in producing reference citations for crediting information from other people.
• Citation Styles - from St. Martin's press, citation style guides for MLA, APA & Chicago.
• Internet Citation Maker - for citing online/internet sources.
• Journalism Resources - guide to citations style guides from Karla Tonella, University of Iowa.

AAA American Anthropological Association

• AAA Style Guide - Style guide of the American Anthropological Association.

APA

• APA formatting and style guide - from Purdue; examples at the bottom of the page.
• APA style - APA style guide for citing electronic media.
• Citation Style Guides for Internet and Electronic Sources- from the University of Alberta, an APA electronic citation guide, and a collection of citation links.
• A Guide for Writing Research Papers APA style - question and answer format.

APSA

• APSA Documentation - Style Manual for American Political Science Association from U-W Madison Writing Center.

CBE

• CBE Documentation (now CSE) - this page explains the CBE (Council of Biology Editors) format.
  

CHICAGO/TURABIAN

• Chicago Manual of Style Online - Chicago style citation quick guide from the University of Chicago Press.
• Chicago Manual of Style Citation Guide- from the Ohio State University Libraries.
• Milwaukee School of Engineering Documentation and Style Guide - developed by Gary Shimek and David Tietyen
• Chicago/Turabian- documentation from UW-Madison Writing Center.

MLA

• MLA 2009 Formatting and Style Guide - from Purdue University; examples at the bottom of the page.
• Citing Information with MLA - tutorial and examples from UNC Chapel Hill.
• MLA Citation Maker - based on the MLA style, from the Oregon Public Education Network.
• MLA Documentation- good site with examples, most current version of MLA.