Citation Resources

Citing Sources using APA, MLA, Chicago, ASA, ESA (Ecology), CSE, AMS, IEEE, ACS Style

The following links are recommended sources to help you with citing sources using one of the three major citation styles (APA, MLA, or Chicago Style), or come visit our Center. We've also added Ecology Style from the Journal of Ecology. If your citation style is not one of the big three or Ecology, we can still work with you! Please make an appointment with one of our tutors.

APA Style Guide (7th Edition)

MLA Style Guide (9th Edition)

The Chicago Manual of Style Online (17th Edition)

American Sociological Society (ASA) Style (7th Edition* New)

  • WMC's Quick Guide to ASA Style (7th Edition)
  • ASA: How to cite ChaptGPT? Follow the Chicago Style guideline.
    AI tools cannot be listed as an author of a paper as AI tools cannot meet the requirements for authorship.
  • Please do not use the ASA citation generator on the Purdue OWL webpage. Information generated is inconsistent and may be incorrect.

ESA (Ecological Society of America) Style

CSE (Council of Science Editors), Scientific Style

  • CSE Quick Guide for three systems of in-text references and end references.

AMS (American Mathematical Society) Style

  • WMC's AMS Quick Guide
  • AMS Style Guide online 2017, free
  • AMS uses Chicago Style for grammar and style for scholarly works and "things not covered in the AMS manual" (AMS, 12). See Chicago Style Guide (online).
  • AMS recommends using MathSiNet (MSC) to identify how to complete reference information: https://mathscinet.ams.org/mathscinet. It also recommends MathSiNet for the spelling of technical terms.

IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) Style

ACS (American Chemical Society) Style

COMMITTEE ON PUBLICATION ETHICS POSITION STATEMENT

Using AI and ChatGPT

While course writing practices may be shaped by faculty and university code of ethics, it is helpful for students to know how researchers and scholars are responding to AI and ChatGPT in publications. COPE's position statement follows the position statement of Journal of American Medical Associations (JAMA) and a growing number of academic publications. Their statement is listed through bullets below:

Regarding AI Tools -

  • "AI tools cannot meet the requirements of authorship as they cannot take responsibility for the submitted work.
  • "As non-legal entities, they cannot assert the presence or absence of conflicts of interest or manage copyright and license agreements.

Regarding authorship -

  • "Authors who use AI tools in the writing of a manuscript, production of images or graphical elements of the paper, or in the collection and analysis of data, must be transparent in disclosing the Materials and Methods (or similar section) of the paper how the AI tool was used and which tool was used.
  • "Authors are fully responsible for the content of their manuscript, even those parts produced by an AI tool, and thus liable for any breach of publication ethics."

Other Handouts

WMC Quick Guide Comparison: In Text Citation Practice with Multiple Authors
Annotated Bibliography: WMC Guide for Annotated Bibliography
Paraphrasing:
WMC Handout Exercise for Paraphrasing Correctly Using APA Style.
WMC Handout Exercise for Paraphrasing Correctly using ASA Style.

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