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Style Guides for Writing: Home

Style Guides for Citing Sources*

APA

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Chicago

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CSE

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MLA

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Turabian

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APA for Peabody students
Style guidelines for Vanderbilt thesis and dissertations (Graduate School)
Style manuals for disciplines

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