Writers' Workshop: Citation Styles

The Center for Writing Studies, The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Thank you for using the Citation Styles Handbook at the Writers' Workshop at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. This handbook summarizes and illustrates the bibliographical formatting rules for two different citation styles: the American Psychological Association (APA) style and the Modern Language Association (MLA) style. To see a comprehensive index of topics, click on the following links.

American Psychological Association
Modern Language Association

For other useful web sites about citation, please see:

Annotated Bibliography of Style Manuals
Compiled by Duke University, this bibliography of style manuals includes all-purpose style manuals, some specialized sources, bibliographies that may be consulted in order to locate additional manuals, and several guides to term paper writing and manuscript preparation.

How to Cite Material Obtained from the Internet
This is the web site companion to The Columbia Guide to Online Style by Janice R. Walker and Todd Taylor (Columbia UP, 1998). This material is no longer up to date, but it provides examples of an alternative citation format for online sources.