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Citing Your Sources

Table of Contents

• General Style Guides
• Citation Creators (including RefWorks)
• Drama and Music Style Guides

Ask your instructor which citation style you should use for his or her course.

General Style Guides

• Citing Your Sources (from the Libraries' Writing Resources web page)
  Includes brief Turabian, APA, and MLA guides. Drama and music often use Turabian; social sciences or education often use APA.

• How to Cite Electronic Resources from the Library of Congress's American Memory Project
  Focuses on digitized primary resources (e.g., text documents, photographs and drawings, films, legal documents, maps, recorded sound, and presentations. Uses examples from LC's digitized historical collections.
• The Chicago Manual of Style (Music Ref. Z 253 U69 2003 plus other libraries)
  Very detailed style guide used by many publishers, especially in the humanities. Turabian is drawn from this. See also:

  Chicago Manual of Style Web Site -- FAQ, search, what's new, examples, etc.
  Chicago-Turabian Style Guide (PDF) -- nice style guide from UC Berkeley
  Bibliographic Format for References -- brief online guide (from U. of Georgia)
  Chicago/Turabian Documentation -- brief guide (from U. of Wisconsin)
  Free Chicago Manual of Style Reference -- basic and advanced instruction on writing a Chicago Style bibliography

Citation Creators

• Citation Machine
  Free. Covers APA and MLA. Does not retain information as you experiment with styles/formats. No way to maintain lists.

• KnightCite
Free. Type in citation info, and KnightCite formats it for you (APA, CMS/Turabian, MLA). Retains information as you experiment with formats and styles. Copy and paste formatted cites into word processing documents. Register if you wish to save, edit, and export entire bibliographies (this service is in test mode).
• EndNote (also see library's EndNote Support Page)
Available for purchase. Sophisticated personal bibliographic software that is compatible with many of the research databases licensed by the UConn Libraries.
• RefWorks: Create or Log into your RefWorks account and FAQs & Instructions
  RefWorks is a web-based bibliographic management program that allows you to

  • Create a personal database of citations from journal articles, books, book chapters, or other sources
  • Automatically generate a bibliography (or works cited page) in APA, MLA, Turabian, or other bibliographic styles in MS Word after downloading the RefWorks Write-N-Cite plugin
  • Export search results from some UConn Libraries' research databases directly to RefWorks
  • Link to the full text of online articles from your RefWorks database using the "UConn Links" button
  • Share your RefWorks database with others using RefShare

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Drama Style Guides

The Mayfield Quick View Guide to the Internet for Students of Film and Theatre (PN 1998 A1 M39 2000 Music Ref). Has information about citing electronic resources.

See general guides above, especially the Library of Congress's American Memory Project.

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Music Style Guides

Bellman, Jonathan. A Short Guide to Writing About Music (Music Ref. ML 3797 .B4 2000)

Boyle, David. A Handbook for Preparing Graduate Papers in Music (Music Ref. ML 3797 B68 2001 )

Chicago Manual of Style (Music Ref. Z 253 U69 1993) -- see additional links above.

Citing Music Sources in Your Essay and Bibliography (from the Western Libraries at The University of Western Ontario)

Holoman, D. Kern. Writing About Music: A Style Sheet from the Editors of 19th Century Music (Music Ref. ML 63 W68 1988 )

Notes Style Sheet from the Music Library Association

Addresses several problems in musical citation and style. Compiled from various style manuals, memoranda, and editing decisions. From the editors of Notes: Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association.

Radice, Mark A. Irvine's Writing About Music (Music Ref. ML 3797 .I79 1999)
Also available online as an electronic book.              

Part I addresses issues of style (capitalization, italicization, punctuation, spelling, typography, citation format, etc.), both general and pertaining to music. Part II is concerned with writing skills. Part III focuses on the treatment of musical topics in a narrative.

Wingell, Robert and Silvia Herzog. Introduction to Research in Music (Music Ref. MT 1 W825 2001).

Wingell, Robert. Writing About Music: An Introductory Guide (Music Ref. ML3797 .W54 1997)

Here is also a guide for citing New Grove articles.

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