1. Gordon Harvey, Writing with Sources: A Guide for Students. Indianapolis: Hackett, 1998.

2. S. Barnet and H. Bedau, Critical Thinking, Reading and Writing. 4^th ed. Bedford-St. Martin’s, 2001.Pages marked with gray on the edge cover MLA and APA styles.

4. Kate L. Turabian A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations. Revised by Wayne C. Booth, Gregory G. Columb, Joseph M. Willilams and the University of Chicago Press Editorial Staff. 7th ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007.   Very closely mirrors Chicago Manual of Style.

5. For biblical studies papers: P. H. Alexander, John F. Kutsko et al, eds. The SBL Handbook of Style. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, 1999.  And, online for students:  http://www.sbl-site.org/assets/pdfs/SBLHS_SS92804_Revised_ed.pdf   You'll need to scroll down past the preface and title page

6.  Editorial Staff of the University of Chicago Press, The Chicago Manual of Style. 15^th ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. Abbreviation for style: CMS.  Chicago Manual of Style -  is currently searchable online if you sign up for a subscription. There is a quick guide at http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide.html There also is a summary at http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/717/01/

6. For links to websites that have details of documentation see http://www.class.uidaho.edu/jcanders/english_style.htm

Below I have indicated some types of citation that often puzzle students.

1. An article, essay, or book in an anthology or collection of works.

Example - How to cite primary material anthologized in a Works Cited/Works Consulted/Reference List when using In-Text(Parenthetical) Citation:

 MLA

Plato. Republic. Books I, II, IV and "The Myth of the Cave: From Book VII." Morality and the Good Life: An Introduction to Ethics through the Classical Sources. 5th ed. Eds. Robert C. Solomon, Clancy W. Martin, and Wayne Vaught. Trans. G.M.A. Grube. Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2009. 81-104.

 Turabian/CMS 

Mill, John Stuart. [1863] 2009. Utilitarianism.  In Morality and the good life: An introduction to ethics through the classical sources, 5th ed. ed. Robert C. Solomon, Clancy W. Martin, and Wayne Vaught,  326-77. Boston: McGraw-Hill.  

Note:  for a well-known source with a known original date of publication, that date should be included.

2. Quotation from one work found in another work. Indirect Sources. See Barnet and Bedau, 213-14 and MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers 4th ed.5.4.7 (page 197); 6th edition 6.4.7.  [See Turabian 11.31. Note: Turabian style and CMS on this issue differs significantly from MLA Style.]

MLA - in-text

Example: Suppose you want to include a quotation from one source found within another source. For example, you want to use the following quotation from a pilot study found in Pence on page 401: "Participants found to be probably gene carriers . . . ." For an in-text citation you introduce the quotation by referring to the author(s) of the quotation and include the citation as follows:

The full reference information on Pence would be included in the Works Cited.

Turabian/CMS - In-text (Parenthetical) - SeeTurabian 7th ed. 19.10

For indirect sources using Chicago Manual of Style NOTE based, differing significantly from MLA, see 17.274 at http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/ch17/ch17_sec274.html   

3. Internet Source - Harvey, 53-56; Barnet and Bedau, 223-24; Turabian for Parenthetical/Reference List 19.5 and 19.7. Citation of electronic works is constantly evolving.

MLA example in Works Cited:

Anderson, Janice Capel. "Immanuel Kant - Overhead." Philosophy 103- Ethics. Spring 2008. University of Idaho. 10 Apr. 2008. <http://www.its.uidaho.edu/jcanders/slide10.htm>.

Plato. Republic. Trans. Benjamin Jowett. The Internet Classics Archive. Web Atomic and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 13 Sept. 2009. Web. 4 Nov. 2009. <http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/republic.html>

4. An article in a dictionary or encyclopedia. - See Harvey, 49; Barnet and Bedau, 223; and MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers 4th ed. 4.6.8 (pages 120-21).  Turabian, 7th ed, 19.5.3 for Parenthetical-Reference list. Note that signed articles from reference works begin with the author(s)’s name (s).

In the MLA Works Cited an unsigned article from a standard reference work should appear as follows:

"Utilitarianism." Encyclopedia Britannica: Macropedia. 1988.

[This is a made-up example. The article on utilitarianism is probably signed].

Turabian Parenthetical:  (Encyclopedia Britannica 15th ed., s.v. "Utilitarianism")  Not included in the reference list if a standard, well-known work.

For a reference work that is less known than major encyclopedias or dictionaries, you should give a fuller entry such as:

MLA  

Angeles, Peter A. "Utilitarianism." The HarperCollins Dictionary of Philosophy. 2nd ed. New York: HarperPerennial. 1992. Print. 

Turabian/CMS format for less well-known reference works with a single author.  Treat as a single authored book: 

Angeles, Peter A., 1992. The HarperCollins dictionary of philosophy. 2nd ed. New York: HarperPerennial. 

The parenthetical/in-text would include the page number as (Angeles 1992, 203)

5. Classical Works such as the works of Plato or the Bible where there are verses or lines indicated. See Harvey, MLA Handbook 4^th ed. 5.4.8, pp. 198-200; Turabian 7th ed. 19.5.2 for In-Text Parenthetical Style

MLA Examples:

Style for Bible used in an in-text citation for the book of Exodus, chapter 6 verses 4-5 : (Ex. 6:4-5) OR (Ex. 6.4-5). The first reference should be accompanied by an indication of the translation used (Ex. 6:4-5, NRSV). If more than one translation is used, then the translation used should be indicated for each reference. No entry in the Works Cited is necessary.

In -text citation from Plato’s Republic line 357d through line 360e: (Plato Republic.357d-360e) Also, acceptable: (Plato, Republic 357D-360E) The first reference should indicate the edition and translation used. If more than one is used, the proper one should be specified each time.

In-text citation of Book One lines 200-201 of Homer’s Odyssey: (Homer Odyssey 1.200-201) The first reference should indicate the edition and translation used. If more than one is used, the proper one should be specified each time

In-text for Turabian in the Parenthetical:

(Ex 6:4-5 [New Revised Standard Version]) OR (Ex 6:4-5 [NRSV])for the first citation or any where the version changes. Subsequent: (Ex 6:4-5)

(Plato Republic 357d-360e)

6. Lectures. Harvey, 56

Examples, one with a title of lecture and lecture series, one from a class lecture:

MLA

George, Kathryn Paxton. "Ethics and Biotechnology." Humanities and Technology Lecture Series. University of Idaho, Moscow, ID. 14 Nov. 2000.

Anderson, Janice Capel. Lecture on J. S. Mill. Phil. 103 - Ethics. University of Idaho, Moscow, ID. 18 Oct. 2000.