LibGuides: Urban Studies: Citing and Writing

How to cite your sources

APA Style and Grammar Guidelines
Get information about creating references and citation practices as well as tips for writing, including bias-free language suggestions.
American Sociological Association (ASA) - Quick Tips for ASA Style (PDF file)
This style sheet has been provided to assist students studying sociology in properly citing and referencing their papers and essays. The information in this document is taken from the American Sociological Association Style Guide (4th ed., 2010).

Excelsior Online Writing Lab (OWL)
OWL has lots of general and subject-specific writing tips and techniques, along with research advice and detailed citation and formatting standards for the APA, MLA, and Chicago styles.
MLA Style Center
Offers advice, citation style updates, examples of citations and papers in MLA style, and templates for constructing citations for a range of source types.

Citing Data

Citing data sets in ASA style
Quick Guide to Data Citation
This is a handy resource from the International Association for Social Science Information Services Technology (IASSIST).
Guidance on Data Citations
Guidance for authors wishing to create data and code supplements, and for replicators, from Social Science Data Editors

Research log
Try using a research log to keep track of what you've searched and what you want to try next. You can copy this to your Google Drive and adjust it to suit your needs.

SAGE Research Methods Core
SAGE Research Methods provides a comprehensive picture of research methods (quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods) across the social and behavioral sciences. It includes more than 100,000 pages of SAGE book and reference material on research methods as well as selected material from SAGE journals.

Annotated bibliographies

Writing an Annotated Bibliography - University of Toronto
Good overview of the process of selecting, assessing and summarizing sources for an annotated bibliography
Annotated Bibliography Sample - Excelsior Online Writing Lab (OWL)
You can find general tips for creating annotated bibliographies as well as samples in APA and MLA styles.
Annotated Bibliography Samples - Purdue OWL
More examples

Literature reviews