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Style Guides
APA = American Psychology Association
CBE = Council of Biology Editors
Chicago = Chicago University
Harvard = Harvard University
IDRC = International Development Research Centre
MLA = Modern Language Association of America
Turabian = Kate Turabian (simplified Chicago)
AGPS = Australian Government Publishing Service
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Style Guides
MLA (Humanities)
MLA = MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers (4th ed., New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1995).
APA (Psychology & Social Sciences)
APA = The fifth edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (2001)
APA School of Criminology Styleguide
APA Sample Bibliographic Entries
Chicago (History & Social Sciences)
Chicago = The Chicago Manual of Style, 14th ed. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993).
Madison Writing Center's Handbook
Madison Writing Center's Handbook Examples
CBE (Biology)
CBE = sixth edition of Scientific Style and Format: The CBE Manual for Authors, Editors, and Publishers, published by the Council of Biology Editors (now the Council of Science Editors) in 1994
Madison Writing Center's Handbook
Madison Writing Center's Handbook Citation Sequence System
Madison Writing Center's Handbook Name Year System
AGPS
AGPS = Australian Government Publishing Service 1994, Style Manual for Authors, Editors and Printers, 5th edn, AGPS, Canberra (replaced by 6th edn, 2002)
Harvard (Author-Date)
Uni of Southern Qld on Harvard
Monash Uni on Vancouver and Harvard
Turabian
Turabian = Turabian, Kate L. A manual for writers of term papers, theses, and dissertations 6th ed. / rev. by John Grossman and Alice Bennett. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1996
Turabian Style Sample Footnotes & Bibliog
IDRC
IDRC = Copyright 2001 ? International Development Research Centre, Ottawa, Canada
Other Styles
Other Links
University of NSW Learning Centre
University of Sydney Style Guide for Education Essays