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Music: Write and Cite

Starting Place for Music Research

Style Resources

MLA Handbook Plus
Reference source with online access to the MLA Handbook. Ninth edition. Also includes MLA Guide to Digital Literacy and MLA Guide to Undergraduate Research in Literature.

OWL @ Purdue MLA
A useful resource for citing with MLA Style.

Chicago Manual of Style Online
University of Chicago Press style guide for American English grammar and usage and for preparation of documents for publishing.

Purdue OWL: Chicago Manual of Style
An easy to follow introduction to Chicago Manual of Style.
Purdue OWL: APA Help
Purdue University's Online Writing Lab provides a helpful overview and examples of APA style. Use the side tabs to navigate to specific source types. The APA Sample Paper is particularly helpful for visualizing proper formatting.

Zotero: Reference Management Tool

Zotero
Zotero is one of our favorite free tools for managing citations. This open source free tool will save your citations, along with the full text of articles, web pages, etc. It will also create citations. We are also happy to help you set it up, feel free to contact us.
Zotero Video Tutorials
Check out these videos showing the tool and how easy it is to set up.

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