Cite My Sources and Use Style Guides: Citation Home

Your instructor may indicate which style they want you to use in the assignment's description or class syllabus. Below are the generally recommended subject specific style guides.

Citations of particular materials (i.e., books, journals, websites) are easily recognizable by the content that they require. When writing citations from scratch, be sure to include the following general components.

The Purdue Owl site has information on annotated bibliographies. The Citation Programs tab offers several different computer software programs to help you prepare your bibliography.