Music

Chicago

Access the Chicago Manual of Style online (must login through VPN if off campus)

• Generally speaking, you're probably most interested in Chapter 14: Documentation: Notes and Bibliography when creating your footnotes and bibliographies.

Several copies of the 17th edition of the Chicago Manual of Style are available in the Ready Reference section of Langson Library.

The Purdue OWL: Chicago Manual of Style Guide is an excellent resource to help you figure out how to properly cite materials in your papers.

• General Format
• Electronic Resource (including articles from a database)
• Video Recording

MLA

The Purdue OWL: MLA Formatting and Style Guide is an excellent resource to help you figure out how to properly cite materials in your papers.

• In-Text Citations
• Basic Citation Format
• Electronic Resource Format (including articles from a database)
• Video Recording (about halfway down the page)

These books provide handy tips on how to effectively write about music:

The UCI Libraries' guide, Bibliographic Management Software, describes and compares programs widely used by students, faculty, and other researchers to keep track of their research materials.  The four programs described in this guide are:

• EndNote
• Zotero
• Mendeley
• RefWorks