Citations: Other Styles

Due to variations in disciplines and the preferences of publishers, there are many more style guides available than the usual MLA/APA/CMOS. This guide serves as an introduction to how to format your document as well as provides examples of the most common citations only.

Faculty,

We recommend sticking with one of the big three styles (MLA, APA, CMOS) for lower-division undergraduates for the sake of simplicity: there's no reason to struggle with learning a specialized style that they're unlikely to ever encounter again (or only encounter as a graduate student of that discipline).

If you feel it necessary to use an unusual style, please adhere strictly to its style guide without interjecting elements of MLA or another style, as the relatively limited resources for these styles already makes them more difficult for us to support.

Digital Object Identifier

• Provides a persistent link to the web location for an electronic item
• Unique alphanumeric code similar to an ISBN; always starts with "10."
   10.1016/j.anireprosci.2006.12.005
• More used in sciences than the humanities
• Print and digital can have DOIs
• DOI is preferred over simply linking (using the url) to an item

How do I find the DOI for a source?

• Usually stated in the research database record
• May be in the article pdf near other identifying info
• There's a DOI look-up tool to search by title/etc

How do I find an article from a DOI?

Enter the DOI number into a DOI resolver to be redirected to the official page for the source.