Citing Sources

Citation Management Software:
Citation tools offer a better way to collect, store, and manage reference information, research notes, and documents. They work with your word processor to manage in-text citations and to build bibliographies in nearly any format.

Using RefWorks, EndNote and Other Citation Tools is a guide to online bibliographic citation tools supported at Harvard.

Citation Guides:

The bluebook: a uniform system of citation. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Law Review Association. Current ed. 18th, 2005.
Online full text 15th ed., 1991 only
Location : Gutman Education Ref. KF245 .B853 2005
Location : Kennedy Sch of Gov Ref KF245 .B58
Location : Lamont REFERENCE READY REF KF245 .U5x
Location : Lamont REFERENCE KF245 .U5x
Location : Law School Reference KF245 .B58
Location : Law School Ref Desk KF245 .B58

Chicago Manual of Style Online

Evidence explained: citing history sources from artifacts to cyberspace, by Elizabeth Shown Mills. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Pub. Co., 2007, 885 p.
Widener | RR 2117.4

Harvard Guide to Using Sources is a guide produced by the Expository Writing Program.

Other Online Citation Guides

University of Wisconsin Writing Center Writer’s Handbook offers links to examples of notes for articles, books, interviews, performances, secondary sources, unpublished material, with first, second and subsequent references. Also provides a link to information on bibliographies and sample entries.


Ohio State University Libraries’ Chicago Manual of Style form guide
contains links to samples of scientific and humanities styles and electronic resource citation.

Journalism Sources Guide, University of Iowa offers a listing of sites, with an emphasis on electronic resource citation sources and guides.

Other Print Citation Guides

The Chicago manual of style. 14th ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993.
Widener: RR 2117.4.2 Library has: 2 copies (one is kept behind the Reference Desk)
Lamont: REF.ROOM Z253.U69 1993
Lamont: Z253.U69 1993

Walker, Janice R. The Columbia guide to online style. New York: Columbia University Press, 1998.
Widener: RR 2117.45.10
Lamont: REF.ROOM PN171.F56 W35 1998