HIST 284: Native North America (HC)

This 2017 edition of the handbook provides guidance on documenting sources and on writing style. It is frequently recommended for use by students in the social sciences. It includes instructions and examples for online publications and websites.

This page explains the system using separate bibliographic notes for citations rather than including them in the text as in often done in science papers. Examples are included for the different kinds of publications most often used by history students.

Guide to Chicago Manual of Style 17th edition, 2017.

The Online Writing Lab at Purdue provides an overview along with helpful examples.

The MLA's Handbook is a standard source for advice on formatting and documenting research in literature studies; it contains useful information on all matters pertaining to writing papers.

This is the ninth edition of a guide that was developed for students and aligned with the Chicago Manual of Style. This edition incorporates much information about digital sources.

"Source citations in the Turabian manual come in two varieties: (1) notes and bibliography (or simply notes) and (2) author-date. These two systems are also sometimes referred to as Chicago-style citations, because they are the same as the ones presented in The Chicago Manual of Style". This web page provides sample citations for a variety of publication types.

The TriCollege Libraries recommend Zotero, a free online app that can format your bibliography, keep your citations organized, and even save your articles in the cloud so you can access them later from the library, home, or café.

Tricollege guide for using Zotero. Starts with an introduction and installation. It then describeshow to use it as a versatile tool for research,organization, footnotes and bibliography.

Workshop led by Dee Brown, Haverford College research and instruction librarian.

See this Haverford video tutorial for a hands-on introduction to using Zotero.