Style Guides provide formatting guidelines for research papers, including citations and bibliographies. Different style guides are used for various disciplines. Chicago is the preferred style for this class and is linked below.
When you are in our catalog (and in some databases) you can select the style guide you want to use to copy that format.
When you cite your sources, you are acknowledging that the ideas, information, or words are from another source. Failure to acknowledge this can be considered plagiarism. When you cite, you are also putting yourself in conversation with scholars, authors, and creators across space and time. You are choosing who to be in conversation with, whose voices you consider authoritative, and whose ideas to highlight. Because of this, we should be careful to cite accurately, honestly, and intentionally.
For more information on the politics of citation, visit Tulane's Latin American Library Guide here: https://libguides.tulane.edu/latin_american_studies/citation