LibGuides: Citing Sources: Other Common Styles

Why You Need Style Guide Information

This guide contains several tools that will cite sources in your paper. However, they are not perfect and some basic knowledge of citations styles is required.

AMA Style

AMA manual of style : a guide for authors and editors.
The older edition is available in print at the Ruth Lilly Medical Library. WZ345 A5122 2007
Medical & Scientific Citation Generator
This tool creates citations in AMA format using PMID, DOI, URL, or ISBN. This tool is useful if you are citing only a few items.

Online APA Style Resources

APA 6th Guide to Electronic References
Link is downloaded as a pdf attachment.
This is not the entire APA 6th.
It is adapted from chapters 6 and 7 of the manual, focusing on E resources.
Purdue Online Writing Lab
Purdue maintains a nice resource that addresses many commonly asked questions about following citation styles. This link is specific to APA style.
Tutorials from APA to get started
Publication manual of the American Psychological Association
Available in print: 6th Edition 2010 - BF76.7 .P83 2010

Reading APA Citations

Reading Citations
Developed by the librarians at the University of Iowa's Hardin Library for the Health Sciences.