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RefWorks

You can easily compile and format your citations using RefWorks. Tutt Library offers the following online guides:

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Online Style Guides

Complete list of online Style and Writing Guides 

 

Citation Style

Writing About Music: A Style Sheet

ML3797 .W75 2008 (Music Library Reference)

A guide confronting many of the tricky aspects of writing about this discipline:

  • how to describe music works and procedures in prose
  • Rules for running narrative, expository text
  • citations (notes, bibliography)
  • treatment of musical examples, tables, illustrations

How to Write About Music-The RILM Manual of Style

ML3797 .H69 2006

RILM lays out policies and procedures for issues that confront every author of texts about music. It includes:

  • General elements of writing style that are commonly questioned
  • Issues frequently encountered by writers on music, thought not specifically musical in nature
  • Issues specific to music

MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers

LB2369 .G53 2009

  • Reference
  • Reference Desk
  • Circ Desk Permanent Reserves
  • Third Floor
  • Online

Chicago Manual of Style

PE1478 .U69 2003

  • Reference
  • Reference Desk
  • North Basement
  • Online

A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations: Chicago Style for Students and Researchers

PE1478 .T8 2007

  • Reference
  • Reference Desk
  • Circ Desk Permanent Reserves
  • North Basesment

 

  

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