Style Guides

• Some suggested citation guides on the internet from an article appear Chronicle of Higher Education, "MLA-Style citations of Electronic Sources," by Janice R. Walker, pp. A18ff. Also see "Bibliographic Formats for Citing Electronic Information", which includes examples of new guidelines that will be included in Xia Li and Nancy B. Crane's upcoming book, "The Official Internet World Guide to Electronic Styles: A Handbook to Citing Electronic Information" (Meckler, 1996). See also article How to Cite Electronic Media available by following the link "Essays Bibliographies and Resources" on the ERIC-AE home page. And then there is

Lynch, P. (1995, February). Yale WWW Style ManualNew Haven: Yale Center for Advanced Instructional Media [On Line]. Available WWW http://info.med.yale.edu/caim/StyleManual.

and

The "Proposed standard for referencing online documents in scientific publications" (Current draft is Revision 1.2.4.) This site contains the most recent draft of Web Extension to the American Psychological Association Style (WEAPAS).

Other links to style manuals may be found from the CedarNet Style Guide.

It is also worth looking at Psych Web, which contains tips for succeeding as a psychology student. Of particular interest is How to write in APA style.

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