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General Citation Guides

Assembling a list of works cited in your paper (Duke University Libraries)
This web site provides examples of citation formats for references to journal articles, books, electronic sources, email messages, book reviews, and other formats. Examples appear in various styles including the formats recommended by the National Library of Medicine for health science publications, APA (from the American Psychological Association), Chicago Manual of Style (Turabian), and CSE (Council of Scientific Editors).

Journal instructions to authors (Raymon H. Mulford Library, Medical University of Ohio, Toledo)
This web site provides instructions to authors for over 3,500 journals in the health and life sciences.

National Library of Medicine recommended formats for bibliographic citation
Produced by the National Library of Medicine Reference Section, this publication provides instructions for formatting citations to different types of materials - both print and electronic.

Citing medicine: the NLM style guide for authors, editors,and publishers
Citing Medicine provides assistance to authors in compiling lists of references for their publications, to editors in revising such lists, to publishers in setting reference standards for their authors and editors, and to librarians and others in formatting bibliographic citations.

Online! A reference guide to using internet sources (Eastern Kentucky University)
Written by Andrew Harnack, Foundation Professor of English, and Eugene Kleppinger, Software Consultant at EKU, this site provides information for citing and documenting Internet sources in different styles. The “Citation Styles” page provides a convenient outline to locate specific types of references in APA, CBE, and other style guides.

AMA

Books

The American Medical Association manual of style: a guide for authors and editors
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Web Sites

AMA Citation Style (B.D. Schwartz Memorial Library, C.W. Post Campus, Long Island University)
The Schwartz Memorial Library at C.W. Post has a series of color-coded style charts to help users quickly identify parts of a citation. Examples of referenced citations include ERIC documents, e-journal articles, web sites, as well as typical print books and journal articles. The Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals – also known as the Vancouver Style (Link to Vancouver Style) – is similar to the AMA Citation Style.

APA

Books

The world's easiest guide to using the APA : a user-friendly manual for formatting research papers according to the American Psychological Association style guide.
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Publication manual of the American Psychological Association
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Web Sites

• APA Official Web Site
• APA Style Reference Format
  Created by Michael Strahan which includes very clear and understandable guidelines for citing electronic resources using the new APA style for electronic sources.
• APA Style Essentials (Vanguard University of Southern California)
  Compiled by Douglas Degelman and Martin Lorenzo Harris of Vanguard University, includes examples of APA document formatting guidelines, text citations, and reference formats.
• A Guide for Writing Research Papers Based on Styles Recommended by the American Psychological Association (Capital Community College, Hartford, CT)
  Maintained by Charles Darling, Professor of English, Capital Community College. This guide covers most reference types, including electronic sources.
• A Sample Paper in American Psychological Association Style (Valencia Community College, West Campus Library, Florida)
  Provides a visual example of APA rules for general document formatting.
• Formatting a Paper Using APA Guidelines 2001 (UW-Madison)
  An easy-to-use source from The Writing Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

The Chicago Manual of Style (Turabian)

Books

Chicago Manual Of Style
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Web Sites

• Chicago official web site
• Chicago/Turabian Documentation (UW- Madison)
  From the Writing Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
• Turabian Samples for a Bibliography (Ithaca College Library, Ithaca, NY)
  An easy-to-use guide from Ithaca College Library.

MLA

Web Sites

• MLA official web site
• MLA Documentation (UW-Madison)
• MLA: In-text Parenthetical Citations (Duke University)

Vancouver Style (Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals)

The Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals were originally developed at a meeting of editors of general medical journals in Vancouver in 1978. This group later came to be known as the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE). The most current edition of the Style Manual was revised in 2004.

Books

Author's Handbook of Styles for Life Science Journals
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Miscellaneous

Books

Writer's Workbook: Health Professionals' Guide to Getting Published
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Web Sites

• The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) official web site
• Citation Examples from the National Library of Medicine