Most common citation guides: APA, MLA, Chicago/Turabian

APA (7th ed.)

MLA (8th ed.)

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What needs to be included in a citation (what information do I need?)

What information do I need to cite a journal article?
How to identify and find the elements you need to cite an article, whether online or print. With examples.

What information do I need to cite a webpage?
Learn how to identify and find the elements you need to cite an webpage, including blog posts, reports, and other files. With examples.

What information do I need to cite a book?
How to identify and find the elements you need to cite a book, including print and ebooks. With examples.

Citing Indigenous Elders and Knowledge Keepers

APA and MLA style manuals do not include instructions for citing Indigenous Elders and Knowledge Keepers.

However, for APA format you may use our APA guide, Citing Indigenous Elders & Knowledge Keepers, or NorQuest College's templates: APA style reference list and in-text citations

For MLA, NorQuest College has developed these templates: MLA style reference list and in-text citations.

Guides by faculty, department, resource type, and discipline

Business

Business sources -- APA style for document types common to Business.

Government documents and statistics

Government documents, Canadian -- APA style | MLA style | Chicago style

Citing guide for Statistics Canada, PCensus, & CHASS data

How to Cite Statistics Canada Products
From Statistics Canada. A tool that describes how to build a reference when citing any type of Statistics Canada product.

How Do I Cite Government Publications? (McMaster University)

Humanities and Social Sciences

Anthropology

American Anthropological Association (AAA)
Note: As of Sept 2015, their guide has been discontinued and AAA recommends the use of Chicago Manual of Style (Author-Date).

Archaeology

Editorial Policy, Information for Authors, and Style Guide for American Antiquity, Latin American Antiquity, and Advances in Archaeological Practice (2021) (Society for American Archaeology)

Communication

Canadian Journal of Communication
Guidelines for submissions to this journal, including citing.

Political science

APSA Style Manual for Political Science (2018) (American Political Science Association)

Sociology

Style Guide/American Sociological Association [print]
Quick Tips for ASA Style/American Sociological Association

Images

Finding and using online images: Citing

Interdisciplinary and general (other)

Harvard style: A generic name for author-date style for citing and referencing, not affiliated with Harvard University. Some interpretations and guides:

Anglia Ruskin University's guide
University of Sheffield (for UK and EU documents)
Monash University

Legal

Legal research materials (Lederman Law Library, Queen's University. Examples of citations for Canadian legal research resources.)

Life sciences

Biology

CSE (Council of Science Editors) style [print]

Health sciences

AMA Citation Style Guide (BCIT's guide to American Medical Association style)

AMA Style (University of Waterloo's guide to American Medical Association style)

Citing Medicine: The NLM style guide for authors, editors, and publishers. For more National Library of Medicine (NLM) style guides see:

NLM Catalog: Journals referenced in the NCBI databases
Samples of Formatted References for Authors of Journal Articles, from the ICMJE (International Committee of Medical Journal Editors)
The Taylor & Francis Standard Reference Style: NLM guide;

Vancouver Style, like NLM style, uses Citing Medicine: The NLM style guide for authors, editors, and publishers
(See also the University of Queensland Vancouver style guide)

Maps and geospatial data

Citing geospatial data and maps

Science and Technology

Chemistry

American Chemical Society (ACS)

The ACS guide to scholarly communication (see Part 4.3 for details on citing including examples)
Williams College Library ACS guide

Engineering

How to Cite References: IEEE Documentation Style (IEEE)

Environmental Science

Council of Science Editors

Physics

American Physical Style (APS)
See also APS Journals

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