Citation Style Quick Guides
These quick reference guides are designed to provide easy access to common formatting and stylistic requirements for each citation style. If we do not currently have a citation guide for a style you are working with, or you suspect that there may be an error, please take a moment to provide feedback.
- American Psychological Association or APA citation style is frequently used in the Social Sciences.
- Council of Science Editors or CSE citation style is frequently used in the Natural Sciences (Biology, Chemistry, Geology, Mathematics, Physics).
- Chicago Manual of Style has two methods of documentation, the humanities style (notes and bibliography) and the author-date style.
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers or IEEE citation style is frequently used in Engineering.
- Modern Language Association or MLA citation style is frequently used in the Humanities.
- National Library of Medicine or NLM citation style is frequently used in the Health Sciences disciplines.
- American Society of Agronomy or ASA, Crop Science Society of America or CSSA, and Soil Science Society of America or SSSA citation styles are frequently used in Soil Science, Agronomy, and Crop Science.