Online Student Library Orientation

McWherter Library's quick guide to Chicago 17th edition using end or footnotes.

McWherter Library's quick guide to Chicago 17th edition, Notes and Bibliography (sometimes called Author-Date) style.

Alphabetical list of links that handle the concerns that might be troubling you.

Features the full up to date CMS, a quick guide for both notes-bibliography and author-date styles, and a rather entertaining Q & A.

Learn to use Chicago Manual of Style citations through Purdue's Online Writing Lab.

Easy to read and color coded.

Straight-forward and stress-free.

A quick tutorial explaining Chicago/Turabian's notes/bibliography style, courtesy of the Librarians of Conestoga College. (3 minute video)

This vidcast covers the basics of formatting a document in Chicago style, including spacing, margins, headers, and use of notes. (4 minute video Courtesy Purdue OWL)

McWherter Library's quick guide to the 8th edition of MLA citation style guide.

The new edition of the MLA Style Guide has a few differences from the 7th edition, but it's not scary! This tutorial will help you understand the differences and cite appropriately.

The Modern Language Association briefs you on what's different in the 8th edition.

The Online Writing Lab at Purdue covers all the basics for in-text citations and the bibliography.

Citation examples from books to legal materials to e-mails.

A 5-minute video on formatting your Word document to match MLA 8th Edition Works Cited page.