Style Guides: Home

In accordance with Austin College's Academic Integrity principle, all sources, print and electronic, must be cited correctly within the text and in a list of works cited. Citation formats or "styles" vary for each discipline. Check with your professor or your course syllabus if you need to know which style to follow.

Please refer to the guides below to help you correctly credit information sources from books, journals, magazines, web pages, etc. used in your research papers and projects. The following links provide some guidance on the importance of citing sources:

• Why Do We Cite?
• Why Citations Matter
• Citing Sources: Overview - Why citing is important.