Music Education: Citing Sources

Have questions about what plagiarism is or about how to avoid it?     

Browse the following for help:

• Plagiarism: Overview
• Is It Plagiarism Yet?
• Paraphrasing and Summary

The above links are made available through The OWL at Purdue, an Online Writing Lab created and maintained by the English department at Purdue University

Chicago Style 17th Edition (for humanities: music history, vocal pedagogy, music theory)

• Chicago Manual of Style Online (library subscription) with full rules and examples.
• Chicago Style Quick Guide (free site) with examples for common formats such as articles, books, book chapters
• Music Citation Guide from the University of Iowa Libraries with examples for sound recordings, scores (manuscript, collected works, and others), and encyclopedias (including Grove and Oxford Music Online.).

APA (for social sciences: ethnomusicology, music education)

• APA Formatting and Style Guide by the Purdue Online Writing Lab.
• APA Style Guide by the SU Libraries. Has a collection of many links to online resources.
• Music Citation Guide from the University of Iowa Libraries with examples for sound recordings, scores (manuscript, collected works, and others), and encyclopedias (including Grove and Oxford Music Online.)

Once you choose your citation style, pick a citation manager to help!

• EndNote -- See the ITS website on EndNote for license and purchase options for faculty/staff/students. Work on your own computer; Powerful tool for manuscript preparation; Organize documents and images

• Zotero -- Open source citation tool; Capture web pages and other new media

Need help with citation managers? Email librarians here at SU for help or to request an instruction session citations@listserv.syr.edu