Citation Style Guide

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The Citation Style Guide is a style guide for the Common Energy wiki. Please adhere to this guide whenever editing or creating page content.

Making References

References are easy to make using a little bit of html. To get the code, click on the edit tab for this page and then copy and paste to customize it for the page that you are working on.

• Thing 1 ^[1]
• Thing 2 ^[2]

1. ↑ Reference 1
2. ↑ Reference 2

For a more extended description of this function go to: Cite - How it Works

So, now that you know the "how" of making a reference, what style should you use for the reference itself?

Reference Style

We use the Chicago style for referencing. A two-page summary of the style can be found here: Guide for Citing Resources: Chicago Manual of Style.

Two common examples:

1) Book with a single author:

Yow, Valerie Raliegh. Recording oral history: a guide for the humanities and social sciences. Walnut Creek, CA: Alta Mira Press, 2005.

2) Website:

Jim Ellison. “Assessing the accessibility of fifty United States government Web pages: Using Bobby to check on Uncle Sam,” (First Monday, 2004), http://www.firstmonday.org (accessed June 16 2005).

It also generally helpful to include the page number at the end if possible. Remember, the goal of a reference is not just to cover your bases. It is to make it as easy as possible for the reader to find the information that you have based your work on.

So, using the power of the wiki:

Thing that Jim Ellison said on a website. ^[3]

1. ↑ Reference 1
2. ↑ Reference 2
3. ↑ Jim Ellison. “Assessing the accessibility of fifty United States government Web pages: Using Bobby to check on Uncle Sam,” (First Monday, 2004), http://www.firstmonday.org (accessed June 16, 2005).