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Citing Resources in the Sciences

• Citation Guides

• Author Guidelines and Other Helpful Resources

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Citation Guides

American Chemical Society (ACS)

• The ACS style guide: A manual for authors and editors.
  E&S REFERENCE: QD8.5 .A25

• Reference Style Guidelines

American Institute of Physics (AIP)

• AIP style manual.
  E&S REFERENCE: QC5.45 .A45

• AIP Style Manual

American Psychological Association (APA)

• Publication manual of the American Psychological Association.
  Hunt REFERENCE: BF76.7 .P83

• APA Style.org

Chicago

• Chicago manual of style.
  E&S REFERENCE: 655.2 C53 15th 2003

• Chicago Manual of Style Online (University of Chicago)

Council of Biology Editors (CBE)

• Scientific style and format: The CBE manual for authors, editors, and publishers.
  Mellon REFERENCE: PE1475 .C74 1994

• CBE Documentation (University of Wisconsin)

Columbia University Press

• Columbia Guide to Online Style
  A guide to locating, translating, and using the elements of citation for APA, CBE, MLA and Chicago.

Government Documents

• The Complete guide to citing government information resources: A manual for social science and business research.
  Hunt REFERENCE: Z7164 .G7 C48

• DocsCite (Arizona State University Libraries).
  A step-by-step guide to putting government publication citations into proper style format.

IEEE

• IEEE Standards Style Manual

IEEE Computer Society

• IEEE Computer Society Style Guide

ISO

• Bibliographic references -- Part 2: Electronic documents (ISO 690-2)

Mathematical Association of America

• Handbooks for Authors

National Library of Medicine (NLM)

• Recommended Formats for Bibliographic Citation

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Author Guidelines and Other Helpful Resources

American Mathematical Society

• Author Resource Center

Engineering and Science Publishing

• How to Submit a Paper for Publication and Format a Citation in Engineering (University of Cincinnati)
  Resources for submitting articles, formatting citations, as well as technical writing.

EndNote

• EndNote is a software program to manage bibliographic citations, for both Windows and Macintosh. Features allow you to transfer references from databases into EndNote and then create bibliographies in a variety of formats.

  For help with the search features of EndNote, contact Jean Alexander, jeana@andrew.cmu.edu. She can explain how to use EndNote connection files and filters to search and capture catalog and database records.

  Note: Having problems connecting to the library catalog with EndNote?

  For more complex troubleshooting, contact the EndNote technical support help desk at http://www.endnote.com/support/entechform.asp.

Citation Machine

• Landmarks Citation Machine
  This Web-based citation building tool creates an APA or MLA citation from information that you provide.