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Alternative Documentation Styles

Tips on Alternative Documentation Styles

The following list provides information about the availability of both text and electronic versions of documentation formats common to a range of academic fields.

Name Location (text) Location (electronic)
American Library Association Chicago Manual of Style (available in Center) http://www.ala.org/ala-ps/style.html
American Marketing Association Journal of Marketing January 1997 (available in Center) None.
American Mathematical Society A Manual for Authors of Mathematical Papers. 8th ed. Providence, R.I.: American Mathematical Society, 1984 http://www.ams.org
American Political Science Association Style Manual for Political Science 1993 http://www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook/DocAPSA.html
American Chemical Society Handbook for Authors of Papers in American Chemical Society Publications http://pubs.acs.org
American Society of Physics AIP Style Manual. 4th ed. N.Y.: American Institute of Physics, 1990. http://www.aip.org
American Society of Civil Engineers None http://www.pubs.asce.org/authors/index.html
The Associated Press The Associated Press Stylebook and LIbel Manual, 42nd ed. 2007. (available in center) http://www.ap.org
The Columbia Guide to Online Style Columbia Guide to Online Style. Walker, Janice R. and Todd Taylor. N.Y.: Columbia UP, 1998. (available in Center) http://www.columbia.edu/cu.cup/cgos/idx_basic.html
Council of Biology Editors Scientific Style and Format: the CBE Manual for Authors, Editors, and Publishers. 6th ed. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1994. http://www.wisc.edu.writing/Handbook/DocCB6.html
Duke University Guide to Style Manuals and Citation Guides None http://www.lib.duke.edu/reference/style_manuals.html (available in Center)
Harvard Law Review Association The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard, 1996. http://www.harvardlawreview.org
Internet Sources for History and Humanities A Manual forWriters of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations, 5th ed., 1987. (available in Center) http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~africa/citation.html (available in Center)
Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers None http://www.ecf.utoronto.ca/~writing/handbook-docum1b.html (available in Center)
National Library of Medicine National Library of Medicine recommended formats for bibliographic citation by Karen Patrias, 1991. http://healthlinks.washington.edu/hsl/styleguides/nlm.html (available in Center)
United States Government Printing Office Style Manual. Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, 1984. http://www.gpo.gov

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