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Writing Style Guides

  • Citing Music Sources

    This page is part of the website of the music library at the University of Western Ontario. It provides citation examples for the many resource types one is likely to encounter in musical research. The examples given conform to the 6th edition Kate Turabian’s A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations (1996).

  • Documentation Guidelines: Citing Sources Within Your Paper

    This general citation guide from the libraries of Duke University provides examples conforming to a number of different style guides, including MLA, Turabian, APA, Chicago, and CSE.

  • Notes Style Sheet

    The Music Library Association maintains this style guide for Notes, its quarterly journal. The guide addresses citations, as well as a multitude of other stylistic concerns.