Citation Styles

When writing a research paper, you must always cite any sources that you have consulted in your research. You must acknowledge when you are using the ideas, information, arguments, phrases or direct quotes of another. Not to do so is referred to as plagiarism. Plagiarism is a very serious offence, but can be avoided by always acknowledging the work of others and citing resources.

Kwantlen Library's Plagiarism Page
Kwantlen's Policy C8 "Plagiarism and Cheating"

Always check with your instructor to ensure you are using the correct style guide. For instance, at Kwantlen, History students are required to use the old MLA/Chicago style (which features footnotes and a bibliography). Psychology students are required to use the APA Style Guide. A Librarian at Kwantlen has created summaries of three of our most popular styles. The links are below as well as the call numbers for finding the complete citation style guide located in each of our Library reference collections.

Turabian (Chicago) Citation Style Guide

American Psychological Association

Publication manual of the American Psychological Association BF 76.7 P83 2009 at Surrey, Richmond, Langley, Cloverdale
Concise rules of APA Style BF 76.7 C66 2005 at Surrey, Richmond, Langley
APA References (Prince George's Comm. College)
APA Style (by Purdue University)
APA Styleguide Handbook
APA Citation: Online Sources - from SFU

Modern Language Association

MLA handbook for writers of research papers REF LB 2369 M57 2009 at Surrey, Richmond, Langley, Cloverdale
MLA References (Prince George's Community College)
MLA Style (by Purdue University)

Turabian (Chicago Style)

A manual for writers of research papers, theses, and dissertations : Chicago style for students and researchers LB 2369 T8 2007 at Cloverdale, Richmond, Surrey, Langley (Reference Collection and General Collection)
Chicago Style (by University of Wisconsin at Madison)

Archaeology & Anthropology

Journalism & Mass Media

Associated Press stylebook 39th ed. REF PN 4783 A83 2004 at Richmond
The Globe and Mail style book 9th ed. REF PN 4783 M34 2003 at Richmond
Merriam-Webster’s manual for writers and editors PN 147 M49 at Surrey, Richmond, Langley

Legal Research

Canadian guide to uniform legal citation 5th ed. REF KE 259 C35 at Surrey and Langley
Kwantlen Library's Legal Citation Guide

CBE and other Sciences

Scientific style and format: the CBE for authors, editors and publishers 6th ed. REF T 11 S 386 at Surrey and Richmond
The ACS style guide: a manual for authors and editors (American Chemical Society) QD 8.5 A25 1985 at Langley
When writing a term paper, check to see if your instructor prefers one of these systems or another. (Some scientific fields, including chemistry, horticulture, medicine, and physics, have their own style manuals.)
Council of Science Editors home
Kwantlen Librarians have chosen a couple of web sites to help you with the CBE style by showing examples.
Using CBE in preparing a paper. - excellent examples.
Excellent guide prepared by Munroe Community College

Social Sciences

ASA Style Guide in Kwantlen's Print collection - HM 586 A54 2007 at Cloverdale, Richmond, Surrey, Langley (Reference Collection)
American Sociological Association
American Sociological Assocation Quick Style Guide
ASA Format with example for Academic papers
Citing References Using ASA

Citing Statistics Canada Resources

Citation Builder - Get help with creating citations for journal articles, books, web sites, and interviews.Created by LOBO Library.

Online! Citation Styles - Online! provides citation styles for the total range of online information: World Wide Web site, Email message, Web discussion forum posting, Listserv message, Newsgroup message, Real-time communication, Telnet, FTP, and gopher sites. Detailed descriptions and examples of each are given for MLA, APA, Chicago, and CBE.

Updated: 22/09/09
Updated by: CD