Guides

Style Manuals

The following guides to the writing process include comprehensive information on citing sources and are available in the Gutman Reference collection. These are NOT available online!

• The Chicago Manual of Style. 15th ed. Ref Z253.U69
• MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing. 2d ed. Ref PN147 .G444 1998
• Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association. 5th ed. Ref BF76.7 .P83 2001 & APA Style Guide to Electronic References (which updates section 4.16, pp. 268-281 of the Manual). Ref BF76.7 .P835 2007
• Turabian, Kate. A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations. Ref LB2369 .T8 1996

Brief Online Citation Guides

See manuals, above, for comprehensive citation styles

• APA Electronic Reference Examples (33KB pdf)
• Electronic Reference Formats Recommended by the American Psychological Association
• MLA Style
• Citing Sources and Avoiding Plagarism

Research Guides

Guides to using our e-resources as well as to often-researched topics

• Finding Articles When You Have a Citation (Tips for using Citation Linker) (86KB pdf)
• HOLLIS Catalog Reference Guide
• International Education Statistics
• Searching EBSCO E-Resources Tips (71KB pdf)
• Selected Subject Indexes Online: An Annotated List
• U.S. Education Statistics

Course-Related Research Guides

Some recent guides by the Research and Instruction staff:

• Asian Americans and Education (H503)
• Legal Issues Affecting Urban Schools in the Post-Brown Era (A-252) (88KB doc)
• Mapping Out and Writing a Critical Literature Review (S-530)
• Monitoring and Evaluation for Improving Education Systems (A-804)
• Schools and the Law (A-213)
• Sources for Doctoral Research Practicum on Community Organizing and Education
• Teaching and Learning: Links Between Research and Practice (A-121)
• Research Experience in Risk and Prevention: Childhood Focus (H-396)

EndNote Guides

Tips and help from Harvard librarians and EndNote:

• Using EndNote at Harvard
• Exporting & Importing from EBSCO databases to EndNote (313KB pdf)
• EndNote Import Filters

RefWorks Guides

Tips and help from Harvard librarians and RefWorks:

• Using RefWorks at Harvard
• RefWorks Tutorial
• RefWorks Quick Start Guide (2,004KB pdf)
• Getting References from Word into RefWorks (83KB pdf)
• Using RefWorks to Create Annotated Bibliographies in APA 5th (78KB pdf)