How do I cite?
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Chicago Manual of Style Online The Chicago Manual of Style Online is a searchable guide the Chicago style of citation, editorial, and publishing practices. It includes both the 15th and 16th editions plus searchable Q&A content, sample forms, letters, and style sheets, and other tools.
Annotated Bibliographies: Definitions & Examples
Evaluating Your Sources
BULS & Online Book Search
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BU Libraries Search (BULS)To find exhibition catalogs, type "exhibition*" after the artist's name.
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ProQuest Ebook Central (formerly eBrary)Put quotation marks around your artist's name.
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Google BooksPut quotation marks around your art work's title.
"Iago's Mirror"
Articles in Journals, Magazines, Periodicals
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ARTbibliographies Modern (ABM) ARTbibiographies Modern (ABM) indexes and abstracts international journal articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogs, dissertations, and exhibition reviews on all forms of modern and contemporary arts, including photography, dating from the late 19th century onwards. Date coverage: late 1960s – present.
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Art Full Text / Art Index Retrospective Art Full Text and Art Index Retrospective index articles in selected international journals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins on advertising; antiques; architecture; crafts; decorative and graphic arts; fashion, industrial, and interior design; folk art; landscape architecture; museology; painting; photography; pottery; sculpture; and more. Date coverage: Indexing 1929 - present, abstracting 1994 - present, full-text as available 1997 - present.
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Google Scholar Google Scholar provides access to academic literature from many disciplines. The sources include articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions and come from diverse places including academic publishers, online repositories and other websites.
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Academic OneFile (Gale) Multidisciplinary database that includes scholarly journals in the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, business, literature, and other subjects. Date coverage and full text availability vary by publication.
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Academic Search Premier Academic Search Premier contains indexing, abstracts and full-text articles for scholarly publications, most of them peer-reviewed. The subjects covered include topics in the social sciences, humanities, general science, education and most areas of academic study. Date coverage varies by publication
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ProQuest News & Newspapers ProQuest News & Newspapers allows searching across a wide range of ProQuest newspaper databases include ProQuest Historical Newspapers, International Newsstream, Canadian Major Dailies, Ethnic Newswatch, and the Boston Globe. These databases can also be searched separately.
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JSTOR This database provides full text access to the back issues of core scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. Book reviews are included as well as journal articles. Abstracts are available for some of the articles. Date coverage: earliest issues of each journal up to the most current five years for most publications and to the present for some.
What are "peer-reviewed" or "refereed" articles?
What if BU does not have your article in print or online?
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Interlibrary LoanInterlibrary Loan services allow current BU faculty, staff, and students to request books, articles, book chapters, and other materials that our ILL staff will obtain from other libraries. Books generally take 2-4 weeks to arrive; articles are generally delivered electronically within 1-2 days.
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Public artIf a book is checked out, SIGN IN.
Click on Request from Libraries beyond BU for access to the ILL form.
Citing Sources
Why cite?
1. to recognize and credit an author’s work and ideas.
2. to enable the reader of your paper to find the article (or book, etc.) and read it.
3. to avoid possible copyright and plagiarism problems.
Avoiding plagiarism - University of Arizona Libraries
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