Citation Guides and Guidelines for Annotated Bibliographies
Here are a few excellent go-to sources for creating citations in MLA and Chicago format, and on preparing annotated bibliographies. Be sure to check with your professor on preferred citation style.
- MLA Formatting and Style Guide (Purdue Online Writing Lab)Here are a few excellent go-to sources for creating citations in MLA and Chicago format, and on preparing annotated bibliographies. You may use either citation style - just be consistent.
- Chicago Manual of Style, 17th edition (Purdue Online Writing Lab)The Chicago Manual of Style (CMOS) (17th ed.) covers a variety of topics from manuscript preparation and publication to citation standards, grammar, usage, and documentation and has been lovingly called the “editor's bible.”
- Guidelines for Annotated Bibliographies (Purdue Online Writing Lab)An annotated bibliography is a list of citations to books, articles, and documents. Each citation is followed by a brief (50-100 words) descriptive and evaluative paragraph, the annotation. The purpose of the annotation is to inform the reader of the relevance, accuracy, and quality of the sources cited. See this site for pointers on developing your annotations.
