Citation Style Resources
- APA Formatting and Style Guide, from Purdue UniversityThe OWL program at Purdue has some excellent instructional guides, among them this guide to APA explaining and showing examples for formatting a research paper and citation styles.
- APA Citation ExamplesFrom the University of Maryland, University College, a great source for seeing examples of citations.
- AMA Manual of StyleUse this link to go directly to the electronic version of the 11th edition, 2020.
Citation Management Resources
If you are working with many citations, or working collaboratively on a literature review, you may benefit from using a citation management tool. There are variety of library-sponsored and free options available. Below are a few:
Mendeley is a free reference manager and academic social network. Make your own fully-searchable library in seconds, cite as you write, and read and annotate your PDFs on any device.
A version of EndNote is available to all ISU faculty and students for free. A fuller, desktop version of this program is available for purchase at the bookstore. This product works seamlessly with other Thomson Reuters products, like Web of Science.
- F1000 WorkspaceF1000 Workspace allows you to discover new references; import and share references with colleagues; save and annotate resources using a browser extension; and save and cite references all within Word.
