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Citation guides

Online guides:

The Purdue OWL (Online Writing Lab) covers writing and citation for MLA, APA, and Chicago Styles.

The University of Georgia Libraries Citation Style Guides are relatively brief guides to the most common types of citations.

The American Political Science Association Style Manual

Citing Maps: Maps and Atlases (NCSU Library)

 

The library owns several style manuals to help you properly cite sources of information. Your instructor may recommend a format for your research paper which will include any of the following (Chicago Style is the most common for history courses, but most humanities students are also familiar with MLA):