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Research Guides

Literature Reviews: Style Guides

This interdisciplinary guide describes the basic steps of doing a literature review.

There are several types of manuals that help with writing research papers. Known as style guides, they include (but are not limited to) MLA (Modern Language Association) and APA (American Psychological Association). Check with your professor to find out which specific style guidelines s/he wants you to follow when writing your paper.

Style Guides

AMA manual of style: A guide for authors and editors by Cheryl Iverson
Call Number: Ref. R119 .A533 2007

ISBN: 0195176332

Library North 2, Reference collection (Non-Circulating)
The Chicago manual of style
Call Number: Ref. Z253 .U69 2010 (LN2)

ISBN: 0226104206
Cite right: A quick guide to citation styles--MLA, APA, Chicago, the sciences, professions, and more by Charles Lipson
Call Number: Ref. PN171.F56 L55 2006

ISBN: 0226484750

Library North 2, Reference collection (Non-Circulating)
A manual for writers of research papers, theses, and dissertations: Chicago style for students and researchers by Kate L. Turabian
Call Number: Ref. LB2369 .T8 2007 (LN2)

ISBN: 0226823377
MLA handbook for writers of research papers (7th ed.)
Call Number: Ref. LB2369 .G53 2009

ISBN: 1603290249

2nd floor of Library North, Reference area
Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (6th ed.)
Call Number: Ref. BF76.7 .P83 2010

ISBN: 1433805596

Online Resources

AMA Manual of Style FAQs (.doc)
From Oxford University Press, publisher of the AMA Manual of Style.
AMA Style Guide
A brief guide from University of Washington.
Citing Medicine
The NLM Style Guide for authors, editors, and publishers.
International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE)
Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals (also known as Vancouver style) from the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors. These manuscript guidelines were first developed by a group of medical journal editors in 1978. They have been revised frequently and are currently followed by more than 500 biomedical journals, which include many of the requirements in their instructions to authors.

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AKA Vancouver style.
List of Journals Indexed for MEDLINE
Journals and their abbreviations from the National Library of Medicine. Search by topic, title or ISSN.
MLA Format & Style Guide - The OWL at Purdue
Online resource.
Vancouver Style: Sample References
From the National Library of Medicine. The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals - aka Vancouver Style.
Web of Science
Find "who has cited who" using Web of Science. Tools include cited reference searching, Citation Maps, and the Analyze Tool.