1. Documentation
Chicago
APA
MLA

2. What Needs to be Documented
Quotes
Paraphrases
Summaries
Any material from a source which is not Common Knowledge

3. Parts of Proper Documentation
Citation
Parenthetical (in text)
Numbered Note (footnote or endnote
Bibliographic information
Works Cited
References

4. Parenthetical Citations
MLA: (author, page)
APA: (author, date) for paraphrases; (author, date, page) for quotes
Chicago style 2: (author, date, page)

5. Numbered Note Citations
Chicago style (Humanities)
Note number in superscript
Foot or End note:
Author, “Title of article,” Title of Publication Volume, issue (date)

6. Basic Bibliographic Information
Author(s)
Title of Article
Title of Publication
Volume
Issue (if paginated separately)
Date of publication
Pages (full run)

7. Bibliographic Information for Digital Texts
Date of Access
Database
URL (for web-based sources. Do not give URL for articles retrieved from a Database)

8. Online Style Guides
Diana Hacker Research and Documentation Guide (Bedford/ St. Martin’s)
Chicago Style Quick Guide (U. of Chicago)