Commonly used styles:
APA Style
APA (American Psychological Association) style is used by social science disciplines such as communication studies, economics, education, psychology, and sociology. It is also used by business and nursing.
Chicago Style
Chicago style is the preferred citation style for history and theology.
MLA Style
MLA (Modern Language Association) style is used to cite sources within English, international languages, theater, cultural studies, and other humanities.
Science and other disciplinary styles:
ACS Style
ACS (American Chemical Society) style is the standard citation style for chemistry.
AMA Style
AMA (American Medical Association) style is by disciplines in science and medicine, including biomedical engineering.
ASA Style
ASA (American Sociological Association) style is the standard citation style for sociology.
CSE Style
CSE (Council of Science Editors) style is used by science disciplines, including biology.
RefWorks or Mendeley
RefWorks and Mendeley are citation management tools that can be useful for organizing your research and writing projects. Both enable you to collect sources in one place, automatically create bibliographies in the citation style you need, add PDFs to your account and annotate them, and share sources with others for collaborative projects.
The library subscribes to RefWorks and Mendeley is free (up to 2GB storage).