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Citation and style manuals

List of citation styles, corresponding online and print guides, and links to sites that provide examples.

ASA style is a widely accepted format for writing university research papers that specifies such the arrangement and punctuation of footnotes and bibliographies. Standards for ASA style are specified in the ASA style guide, which is published by the American Sociological Association, the main scholarly organization for academic sociologists in the United States.

Style manuals

Example sites