RefWorks
This is a bibliographic management program that allows Rockhurst University faculty, students and staff to set up their own online account to manage citations imported from databases subscribed to by the Greenlease Library; input citation information from books and other material formats. Additional features are included, such as the Write-N-Cite plugin application for creating parenthetical reference. Many citation formats are included.

RefWorks Account Information

Tutorial and Quick Start Guide (PDF 242MB)*

Connect to RefWorks

How to Export Saved Citations from a Database Into RefWorks (PDF 29KB)*

Adding References Manually to RefWorks

Print Sources

Hacker, Diana. The Bedford Handbook. 6th ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martins, 2002.
This provides basic citation styles as well as assistance with writing. One copy is available in the "English Department" reserve collection at the Circulation Desk.

Hodge, John et al. Hodges' Harbrace Handbook. 14th ed. Fort Worth: Harcourt College Publishers, 2001.
This provides basic citation styles as well as assistance with writing. One copy is available in the "English Department" reserve collection at the Circulation Desk.

Gibaldi, Joseph. MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. 5th ed. New York: Modern Language Assn., 1999.
This is the leading citation style for studies in the humanities: arts, literature, music, history, philosophy and religion. Also includes is a list of style manuals for biology, chemistry, geology, linguistics, mathematics, medicine, physics and psychology in the appendix of this book. One copy is available in the "English Department" reserve collection at the Circulation Desk. Two copies are available in the Reference collection on the main floor at Ref. LB 2369 G53 1999.

American Medical Association. American Medical Association Manual of Style : a Guide for
Authors and Editors. 9th ed. Baltimore : Williams & Wilkins, 1998. The citation manual for papers published in medical fields. One copy is available in the Reference collection on the main floor at Ref R 119 A533 1998.

American Psychological Association. Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association. 5th ed. Washington: Amer. Psychological Assn., 2001.
This is the leading citation style for studies in the social sciences. One copy is available in the "Psychology Department" reserve collection at the Circulation Desk. One copy in the Reference collection on the main floor at Ref. BF 76.7 P83 2001

Council of Biology Editors. Scientific Style and Format: The CBE Manual for Authors, Editors and Publishers. 6th ed. United Kingdom: University of Cambridge, 1994.
This is the leading citation style for studies in the life sciences. One copy is available in the "Biology Department" reserve collection at the Circulation Desk.

Chicago Manual of Style. 14th ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993. Ref. Z 253 U69 1993
This is the style format preferred by publishers and scholars for submission of manuscripts for publication.

Writing Papers in the Biological Sciences. 3rd edition. Ref QH 304 M36 2001
A guide to searching for biology literature, using tables and figures, drafting a paper, documenting sources and other useful information on scientific writing.

These citation styles specifically address information retrieved from databases, the internet and other electronic files:

Li, Xia. and Nancy B. Crane. Electronic Styles: A Handbook for Citing Electronic Information. Rev. ed. Medford, NJ: Information Today, 1996.
One copy is available in the "English Department" reserve collection at the Circulation Desk.

Walker, Janice and Todd Taylor. Columbia Guide to Online Style. New York: Columbia University Press, 1998.
One copy is available in the "English Department" reserve collection at the Circulation Desk.

Internet Sources

Writer's Handbook- Documentation Styles.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Writing Center.
http://www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook/Documentation.html
A good site to find examples of a variety of citation styles, including MLA, APA and Chicago.

Citation Styles for Research Papers.
Long Island University
http://www.liu.edu/cwis/cwp/library/workshop/citation.htm
Examples of citations in MLA, APA, Turabian, AMA, and Chicago styles

Uncle Sam-Brief Guide to Citing Government Publications. University of Memphis Library. http://exlibris.memphis.edu/resource/unclesam/citeweb.html

Walker, Janice R. Columbia Guide to Online Style.
www.columbia.edu/cu/cup/cgos/idx_basic.html

Information on how to cite sources from selected databases:

Lexis-Nexis Academic. and Lexis-Nexis Primary Sources in Hsitory. Examples in both the MLA and APA styles are given.

EBSCOhost. Examples in the MLA, APA, Chicago and Turabian styles are given.

Thompson Gale. For Business and Company Resource Center and the Discovering Collection databases.