Format: 
Author Last Name, First Name. "Title of Article." Journal Name  Volume. 
     Issue if applicable (Year): page(s). Project MUSE Day Month Year 
     of access <URL of article, break after a slash if needed>.

Example:
Browner, Stephanie P. "Writing American Science and Gender." American
    Literary History 16.3 (2004): 509-519. Project MUSE 12 March 2005
     <http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/american_literary_history/v016/
     16.3browner.html>.

Format: 
Author Last Name, First Name. (Year). Article title. Journal name,
     volume number(issue number, if applicable), page number(s). 
     Retrieved Month day year, from Project MUSE database.

Example:
Grady, Frank. (2003). Arnoldian Humanism, or Amnesia and Autobiography
     in the Schwarzenegger Action Film.  Cinema Journal, 42 (2), 41-56.
     Retrieved September 4, 2004 from Project Muse database.

Commonly Used Style Guides & Manuals

 MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, 5th edition

REF LB 2369 .G53 2003 c. 2 (available at Circulation Desk)


 MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing

REF PN 147 .G444 1998 (available at Reference Desk)


 Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, Disserations [commonly called Turabian], 6th edition

REF LB 2369 .T8 1996 (available at Circulation Desk)


 Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition

REF Z 253 .U69 2003 (available in Reference Stacks)


 Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 5th edition

REF BF 76.7 .P83 2001 (available at Circulation Desk)


 The ACS Style Guide: a Manual for Authors and Editors

REF QD 8.5 .A25 1997 (available at Reference Desk)


 Writing Papers in the Biological Sciences

REF QH 304 .M36 2001 (available at Circulation Desk)

Citation Metasites

 Sources 


From Dartmouth Universiy; centers on a specific audience--college students. Sources provides good information on how to cite articles from electronic journals and from aggregator services like FirstSearch


 Citation Styles 


From Bedford St. Martin's, a commercial publisher, focuses on a more general writing audience than the Sources site.

 Citing Sources  Duke University Writing Program

  Style Sheets for Citing References  UC-Berkeley

 Citing Electronic Information in History Papers by Maurice Crouse


In spite of the discipline specific title, this is a very comprehensive and valuable site.

Commonly used Formats for Citing Electronic Information

APA Sites:

 Electronic Reference Formats (official APA site)
 APA Style Electronic Formats by Dr. Mary Ellen Guffey
 Citation Guides for Electronic Documents by IFLA
 Citation Resources Online
 Columbia Guide to Online Style   (interpreting APA and MLA for electronic sources)
 Documenting Resources Purdue University
 Online! A Reference Guide to Using Internet Resources
 Uncle Sam-Brief Guide to Citing Government Publications., APA & MLA Citation Styles

MLA Sites

 MLA Style This is the official MLA site and has summary information about changes made in the most recent print edition. For complete information see the latest handbook kept at the Circulation Desk--ask for MLA Handbook, 6th edition call number REF LB 2369 .G53 2003.
 Citation Guides for Electronic Documents by IFLA
 Columbia Guide to Online Style   (interpreting APA and MLA for electronic sources)
 Documenting Sources Purdue University (Owl handouts)
 MLA Style Electronic Formats by Dr. Mary Ellen Guffey
 Online! A Reference Guide to Using Internet Resources
 Uncle Sam-Brief Guide to Citing Government Publications., APA & MLA Citation Styles

Turabian Style Sites:

 Turabian Style: Sample Footnotes and Bibliographic entries  UW-Madison Writing Center

Government Style Sites:

 Uncle Sam-Brief Guide to Citing Government Publications., APA & MLA Citation Styles

History & Humanities Sites:

 A Brief Citation Guide for Internet sources in History and the Humanities by Melvin E. Page
 Citing Electronic Information in History Papers by Maurice Crouse
Over the nine years of its existence, this page has been the most consistently updated page. The author of this page Maurice Crouse also allows the reproduction of this document, provided that you reproduce it in its entirety and without any modification, making it extremely convenient for teachers to use.