Library Databases Research Help Internet Resources Introduction Accurately documenting sources constitutes a crucial part of the writing and research process. Documentation is used to give credit for information and ideas originally written elsewhere Documentation enables others to locate original sources Failure to give credit for drawing on the work of others constitutes plagiarism. The USU Libraries own many different documentation style manuals and several are available on the Internet. Your instructor will designate which manual is appropriate for your class.
Style manuals differ in how materials are cited.
Information required for the citation will vary depending on whether the citation is for a journal article, book, conference paper, government document, film, video, or other source. Style Manuals Listed below are some of the major documentation styles. For those style manuals that do not have Internet sites, we have provided selected examples . Serendipity Press, 1987. In Turabian, every line, except the first, is indented five spaces.