style manuals

Explains the writing style and paper format that is used by the American Psychological Association, covering ethical and legal standards, ensuring accuracy, protecting rights and welfare of participants, manuscript structure and content, writing clearly and concisely, the mechanics of style, displaying results, crediting sources, reference examples, and the publication process.

Summarizes the documentation style of the Modern Language Association of America as it pertains to writing research papers, providing information on how to prepare a bibliography, how to document sources within the text of a paper, when and how to use footnotes and endnotes, and how to avoid plagiarizing.

Offers guidelines for citing Internet sources when writing footnotes or bibliographic entries, formatting documents for online publication, and electronically preparing texts for print publication.