Citation Guides

APA Style Guide
This guide, adapted from the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (Ref BF 76.7 .P83 2001) provides examples of how to document material from other writers when preparing scholarly papers.

MLA Style Guide
This guide, adapted from The MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers (Ref LB2369 .G53 2003), provides examples of how to document source material when preparing scholarly papers. It is used mainly for the humanities.

AAA Style Guide
This is a guide to the official style of the American Anthropological Association.

CBE Style Guide
In your papers and presentations, you must cite any information you use that was taken from another source. For biology, you will be using the Name-Year System from Scientific Style and Format: The CBE manual for authors, editors, and publishers (REF T11 S386 1994). Willamette's Biology Department differs from the CBE recommendations for citing articles, and the supported standards are listed below.

Chicago Style Guide
The Chicago or Turabian style is used for the natural and social sciences, and places bibliographic citations at the bottom of a page or at the end of a paper.