LibGuides: MATH 217: History of Mathematics: Citing Sources

Online Citation & Style Guides

Modern Language Association (MLA) Citation Guide
From Ohio State Libraries, last updated 2010.
MLA Update
Online Writing Lab (OWL) at Purdue provides help in using MLA style, 8th edition.
Writers Workshop Bibliography Styles Handbook
From the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, includes examples of in-text citations.
easybib
Easybib.com adheres to the 7th edition of the MLA Handbook.
Research and Documentation: MLA List of Works Cited
This excellent site, based on Diana Hacker's text, provides multiple examples of how to cite different types of sources (books, articles, gov docs, etc) in MLA style.

BibTeX

http://www.bibtex.org/

BibTeX is reference management software, used often for citing sources in research papers in the sciences, such as Physics and Mathematics.

Print Guide

The following print style manual is available in Andruss Library:

MLA Style, 7th ed. - MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers.
Used in the artis This book presents Modern Language Association's style requirements and provides examples for all types of information sources. Book is available at the Reference Desk of Andruss Library (1st floor) (6th ed. also available)

RefWorks Guide

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Group Code for Bloomsburg University is RWBUP.

What is RefWorks?
RefWorks is a web–based bibliographic reference manager. It allows a user to create a personal database of references and use them for a variety of research activities. References can be quickly and easily imported from many online databases and library catalogs into RefWorks and then organized, stored, and shared. Users may also automatically insert the references into their papers using the free Write-N-Cite plug-in for Word or create formatted bibliographies in a variety of citation styles.