Dr. Abel Scribe's Research Style Format Links.

Official Websites should be your first stop when looking for information on referencing electronic sources. There are many unofficial sites to trap the unwary. For general information, check out the Research Guide for Students at Yahoo/Geocities and the Higher Education Links List.

Russ Dewey's Psych Web has links to resources for psychology students.

Official Web Sites & Style Guides

American Anthropological Association. "AAA Style Guide." No Date. [September 5, 2001]. This is a complete style guide for authors. [Accessed October 10, 2003.]

American Economic Association. "American Economic Review: Sample References." No Date. [February 18, 2000]. Style Sheet. [Accessed October 10, 2003.]

American Institute of Biological Sciences. "BioScience Magazine - The Online Guide." No Date. [February 18, 2000]. This is about what they print in each issue of BioScience. [Accessed October 10, 2003.]

American Political Science Association. "The American Political Science Review: Instructions for Contributors." No Date. [Accessed October 20, 2005]. Googled this and copied it to the www.docstyles.com archive.

American Psychological Association. This is the APA's new Web site devoted to the fifth edition of the Publication Manual. August 2001? [Accessed October 10, 2003.]

APA Electronic References? With uncharacteristic generosity the APA makes available a free online guide to formatting six (!) electronic sources. They sell a complete guide for $11.95. January 2003? [Accessed October 10, 2003.]

American Sociologicial Association. This is the order page for the ASA Style Manual at their reseller's website. [Accessed October 20, 2005.] If this does not work go to the ASA Website & search.

Association of American Geographers. Professional Geographer: Information Page." No Date. [Accessed October 10, 2003.]

Guide for the Use of the International System of Units (SI). National Institute of Standards and Technology, Special Publication 811. This is the official style manual for the US government. About 80 pages in PDF format. [Accessed October 10, 2003.]

International Committee of Medical Journal Editors. "Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals." Revised October 2001 [September 18, 2003]. Also known as the "Vancouver style." Download a PDF copy of this document on the AMA style guide page.

MLA Style - How do I document sources from the World Wide Web? This page is copied in PDF format from mla.org. It is online in the FAQ section, under MLA Style (the page link is not stable).

MLA - Citing Electronic Sources. This online style sheet is provided courtesy of Middlebury College, 16 September 2002. [Accessed October 10, 2003.]

US Government Printing Office Style Manual 2000. This comprehensive style guide is free to view online, and may be downloaded in PDF format (5.5 MB) in 20 individual chapters plus front and back material. Chapters of particular interest include: Abbreviations and Letter Symbols (9), Punctuation (8), and Signs and Symbols (10). [Accessed October 10, 2003.]

Additional Guides & Resources

A Research Guide for Students by I. Lee. This site offers an amazing array of information on how to write, document, and format college research papers. There are many many links and references to various resources. The site gives special attention to MLA style.

Bartleby.com. "The preeminent Internet publisher of literature, reference and verse providing students researchers and the intellectually curious with unlimited access to books and information on the web, free of charge."

EServer.org -- Accessible Writing at the University of Washington, Seattle. This amazing site offers a vast array of information ranging from many books and essays to online journals, software, and links. Especially noteworthy are the collections of the works of Marx and Engels, and the Thoreau Reader. The site is organized by subject area: philosophy, history, poetry, languages, and more.

Guide for the Use of the International System of Units by Barry N. Taylor (1995). Published by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, this free 80 page guide in PDF format explains everything you could ever want to know about using numbers in scientific writing.

OWL: Online Writing Lab at Purdue University. The site offers a variety of resources to help students with writing projects. Of special note are the excellent handouts in PDF format. New Website: Fall 2005.

Paradigm Online Writing Assistant by Chuck Guilford. The online writing assistant is focused of content issues in writing research papers, not styles and formats. The site is highly accessible, and the recipient of many awards.

Statistical Abstract of the United States. This is the most authoritative source for statistical information about the United States. Download individual chapters--in PDF format. [Accessed October 10, 2003].

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