Library Guides: FSEM 4444 You Are What You Eat: A Course in Food Chemistry: Citing Sources

How do I cite a source?

To cite a source properly, you need to follow the rules of a particular citation style.

There are many styles, and reformatting citations can take a long time -- so ask your professor about what citation style to use before you start writing your paper.

Common Citation Styles:

APA Academic Writer
Guides, tutorials, and research tools for APA (American Psychological Association) Style.
Chicago Manual of Style Online
The online edition of the Chicago Manual of Style (CMOS) provides the full text in HTML or PDF formats as appropriate. The index makes it easier to navigate appropriate sections.

The ACS Style Guide (American Chemical Society)
This link takes you directly to Chapter 14, which explains how to format references in ACS Style. Click on the link for the Table of Contents to read the entire Style Guide, which describes how to write, review, submit, and edit scholarly & scientific manuscripts.
CSE (Council of Science Editors) Style
An overview by the Writing Center at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. The library has multiple print copies of the 8th edition of the CSE manual: "Scientific Style and Format: The CSE Manual for Authors, Editors, and Publishers" (2014).

Online Style Guides:

Purdue OWL (Online Writing Lab)
Citing Information (UNC Libraries)
The Writer's Handbook (UW Madison Writing Center)

Quick tools for auto-formatting your citations:

Want to use a program that not only creates your bibliography automatically, but can also store and organize citations and PDFs?

Check out ReadCube Papers -- DU provides all students, faculty, and staff with free accounts.
Check out Zotero -- a great free option from the makers of the Firefox browser.

Just need to format a few citations right now? Try these quick tools:

ZoteroBib
Create a quick bibliography by pasting in a page URL or article information such as the DOI.
Google Scholar Citation Generator
Look up an citation in Google Scholar, then look for the quote icon below the citation. This link provides examples of the citation in MLA, APA, and Chicago styles.
CItation Generator
Build citations in APA, Chicago, or MLA style.

Whichever program you choose, remember to proofread the citations it generates for you!

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FSEM 4444 You Are What You Eat: A Course in Food Chemistry

How do I cite a source?

Quick tools for auto-formatting your citations: