Course Description

Citation Styles

From your English class in high school, you may be familiar with MLA Style, a system for usage and citation that the Modern Language Association has established for use in its publications. There are several other commonly used styles, though, practiced in other disciplines. These disciplines establish their own styles based on their own discourse communities, what kinds of information is valued, why it is valued. For instance, in sciences and social sciences, timeliness is valued highly. Therefore, in a citation, the date of publication comes earlier than it would in an MLA citation.

CBE Style (Council of Science Editors) is commonly used in the natural and physical sciences as well as in mathematics. <http://www.councilscienceeditors.org/publications/style.cfm> Accessed 2004 February 20.

The Chicago Manual of Style is published by the University of Chicago Press and grew out of its history of publishing academic texts. <http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/cmosfaq/cmosfaq.html> (7 November 2004).

"The American Psychological Association has established a style that it uses in all of the books and journals that it publishes. Many others working in the social and behavioral sciences have adopted this style as their standard as well." Retrieved February 20, 2004 from APA.Style.org Web site: http://www.apastyle.org/aboutstyle.html

Here are two links to online information about APA Style.

Tips from APA.style.org A series of frequently asked questions about punctuation and citation, according to APA style.

Purdue University Online Writing Lab APA Workshop

One book, four styles:

Works Cited

Swope, Sam. I Am a Pencil: A Teacher, His Kids, and Their World of Stories.

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2004.

References

Swope, S. I Am a Pencil: A Teacher, His Kids, and Their World of Stories.

New York: Henry Holt and Company; 2004. 297 p.

Bibliography

1. Sam Swope, I Am a Pencil: A Teacher, His Kids, and Their World of

Stories.(New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2004), 43.

References

Swope, S . (2004).

I Am a Pencil: A Teacher, His Kids, and Their World of Stories. New York: Henry Holt and Company.