Citing Your Sources
Proper citation is essential. Citing properly allows your reader or audience to locate the materials you have used. Citations give credit to the authors of quoted or consulted information. For detailed instructions on how to cite within the text of your paper, please consult a style manual listed below.
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CSE (Council of Science Editors) Style
Citing Your Sources: CSE (Council of Science Editors) Style
Style Manual Committee, Council of Science Editors.
8th ed. Cambridge University Press, 2014
Location: Science & Engineering Library T11.S386 2014
See Chapter 30: Citations and References pages 617-676
Citing electronic sources pages 665-669
Some Engineering Publication Styles/Author Guidelines
Most Engineering Societies and many journals have Instructions for Author or Author Guidelines on their websites and in their publications.
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
Chicago Style
The Chicago Manual of Style by
Originally written in 1906, this tome has a rich history of providing quality guidelines for citing works and creating bibliographies. The library has a subscription to the full online version. The website also offers a citation quick guide that has many examples. The 17th edition is the most recent, published in 2017.
Location: Mugar Reference Z253 U69
NLM (National Library of Medicine Style)
Citing Medicine: the NLM style guide for authors, editors, and publishers
The official style manual for the National Library of Medicine (NLM), and suggested when citing documents from the associated databases MedLine and PubMed. The online edition supercedes the print edition as the most up to date.
