Purdue OWL (Online Writing Lab)
The Online Writing Lab (OWL) at Purdue University houses writing resources and instructional material, and we provide these as a free service of the Writing Lab at Purdue. Students, members of the community, and users worldwide will find information to assist with many writing projects.
Citing Your Sources
Proper citation is essential. Citing properly allows your reader or audience to locate the materials you have used. Most importantly, citations give credit to the authors of quoted or consulted information.
BU Libraries recommend RefWorks as a tool to manage citations. Accounts are free for the BU community, and RefWorks can automatically create a bibliography in hundreds of styles.
- Mendeley a free reference manager and PDF organizer.
- Zotero a web browser-based toll that allows you to collect, organize, annotate, cite, and share research.
- Quick Bibliography Generators
- Research Guide: Create Bibliographies
CSE (Council of Science Editors) Style
The CSE Manual, Ninth Edition by Publication Date: 2024Scientific Style and Format
Quick Guide
Citing Your Sources: CSE (Council of Science Editors) Style 8th ed. Cambridge University Press, 2014
See Chapter 30: Citations and References pages 617-676 Citing electronic sources pages 665-669
Some Engineering Publication Styles/Author Guidelines
- IEEE EDITORIAL STYLE MANUAL- Citation style guidelines from the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers
- ASME: References Citation style for Mechanical Engineering from the American Society for Mechanical Engineers
- Communications of the ACM: Author Guidelines Citation style for computer science and computer engineering from the Association for Computing Machinery
