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The Associated Press Style Guide
The Associated Press was founded in 1848 as a cooperative effort among six New York newspapers that wished to pool resources for gathering international news. Today, with over 3,700 employees in 121 countries, the AP is the world's single largest news organization. Every day, more than a billion people read, hear or see AP news.
From the beginning, AP reporters have written their dispatches for readers from diverse social, economic and educational backgrounds and a wide range of political views. The AP therefore strives to keep its writing style easy to read, concise and free of bias. The Associated Press Stylebook, first published in 1977, clarified the news organization's rules on grammar, spelling, punctuation and usage. Now in its sixth edition, the Stylebook is the standard style guide for most U.S. newspapers, magazines and public relations firms.
American Psychological Association Style Guide
Like all documentation styles, American Psychological Association style provides a standard system for giving credit to others for their contribution to your work. It is a "parenthetical" documentation style, meaning that citations to original sources appear in your text. This allows the reader to see immediately where your information comes from, and it saves you the trouble of having to make footnotes or endnotes. For more information about APA style, visit http://www.apastyle.org.
APA style is primarily used by writers in the laboratory sciences (chemistry, biology, geology, medicine, etc.) and social sciences (psychology, sociology, economics, etc.). Your professor should let you know what documentation style to follow.
This summary contains examples for referencing a wide variety of sources. If you do not see what you are looking for, the Reference section of the library should have a copy of the most recent APA style guide. In addition, the University of Wisconsin has compiled an extensive list of APA style resources online. Go to http://www.wisc.edu/writetest/Handbook/DocAPA.html and click on “Locate other APA resources on the Web” to access the list.
The Modern Language Association Style Guide
The Modern Language Association Handbook offers complete guidelines for manuscript style and citation in MLA, the documentation style of the humanities. This summary offers a brief explanation of in-text citation and models of the most commonly used types of sources, with examples drawn from the MLA Handbook. If you have a source not illustrated here or need additional information, consult the MLA Handbook.
Online Sources: MLA Citation Style Guide
This guide will help you properly cite your sources from the Internet in MLA format. These may include online books, electronic journals, electronic magazines, online newspaper articles, scholarly projects or information databases, e-mail messages, web postings, listserv messages, and any other sources from the World Wide Web.
Note: In-text citations of Internet sources follow the same format as those of non-Internet sources. Please consult the MLA format guide for an explanation.
