Citing Sources

The Oregon Tech Library provides this abbreviated guide to documentation of sources for academic and professional writings. The guide is based on The Chicago Manual of Style, 16th ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010. The manual is located in course reserves. 

The two citation systems of the Chicago citation style are widely used in academic institutions; the choice between the two is based on a specific discipline and subject.

• The Turabian system is used for citing sources in literature, history and the arts
• The Author-Date system is used for citing sources in physical, natural, and social sciences

Oregon Tech programs typically use the Author-Date system when assigning Chicago Style.

CSE style, formerly known as Council of Biology Editors (CBE) style, is most frequently used in the fields of biology and environmental sciences.

There are three possible formats in this style:

• Citation-sequence: references are numbered and listed in the order they are mentioned in the paper; uses superscript numbers
• Name-year: unnumbered references are listed in alphabetical order
• Citation-name (combines aspects of the two): references are arranged alphabetically and are numbered sequentially

Book: 
Cain ML, Bowman WD, Hacker SD. Ecology. 2nd ed. Massachusetts: Sinauer Associates, Inc; 2011. 648 p.  

Article:
Wilton P. The Toronto Free Hospital for Consumptive Poor. Can Med Assoc J. 1992. May 15;146(10):1812-14.

Check out the Colorado State University guide for further information.

The American Medical Association citation style may be used for a research paper in medicine, health care or any other health-related topic.

Book:
Berger S. Allotment gardening : An organic guide for beginners. Devon, England: Green Books, Ltd.; 2005

Article:
Porell F, Carter M. Discretionary hospitalization of nursing home residents with and without Alzheimer's disease: a multilevel analysis. J Aging Health. 2005;17(2):207-238. doi: 10.1177/0898264304274302.

Please see these websites for additional information and examples of how to use AMA style:

• James Madison University Libraries AMA Style Guide examples for in-text citations and reference lists
• AMA Style Guide produced by the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
• NYU Libraries: https://guides.nyu.edu/amastyle

Video Guide to AMA Style

APA citation style is used across many social sciences.

Electronic book:
Austin, M.H. (1903). The land of little rain. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company. Retrieved from Project Gutenberg:                                             http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/365

Scholarly journal article:
Andersson, H.I. (2009). Increased mortality among individuals with chronic           widespread pain relates to lifestyle factors: A prospective population-           based study. Disability & Rehabilitation, 31, 1980-1987. doi:                        10.3109/09638280902874154 

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In text IEEE style uses a number in a bracket. [1] The citations at the end of the text appear in numerical order as the appeared in the paper. Check out the official IEEE Reference Guide for details and more examples.


Book:
[1] A. Histace, “Image restoration—Recent advances and applications,” in Super-Resolution Restoration and Image Reconstruction for Passive Millimeter Wave Imaging. Rijeka, Croatia: InTech, 2012, pp. 25–45.

Article:
[2] R. Fardel, M. Nagel, F. Nuesch, T. Lippert, and A. Wokaun, “Fabrication of organic light emitting diode pixels by laser-assisted forward transfer,” Appl. Phys. Lett., vol. 91, no. 6, Aug. 2007, Art.ID. 061103

MLA is often used in the humanities.

Book:
Wysocki, Anne Frances, Johndan Johnson-Eilola, Cynthia L. Selfe, and Geoffrey Sirc. Writing New Media: Theory and Applications for Expanding the Teaching of Composition. Logan: Utah State UP, 2004. Print.

Article:
Duvall, John N. "The (Super)Marketplace of Images: Television as Unmediated Mediation in DeLillo's White Noise." Arizona Quarterly50.3 (1994): 127-53. Print.

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Vancouver style is sometimes used in medicine and the medical sciences. This style list references in order as they are cited in the paper or project.

Book:
Carlson BM. Human embryology and developmental biology. 4th ed. St. Louis: Mosby; 2009. 541 p.

Article in an electronic journal:
Kanneganti P, Harris JD, Brophy RH, Carey JL, Lattermann C, Flanigan DC. The effect of smoking on ligament and cartilage surgery in the knee: a systematic review. Am J Sports Med [Internet]. 2012 Dec [cited 2013 Feb 19];40(12):2872-8. Available from: http://ajs.sagepub.com/content/40/12/2872 DOI: 10.1177/0363546512458223 

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