WRITING AIDS

• APA Reference Style: Tightening the Screws.
  David S. Baker and Lynn Henrichsen's Comprehensive Guide to APA Style.

• Columbia Guide to Online Style
  Shows correct forms for citing electronic media in MLA, Chicago, APA, CBE citation forms.

• Copyright Clearance Center, Inc.
  A not-for-profit organization created to help organizations comply with U.S. copyright law. Through its collective licensing programs, CCC provides authorized users with a lawful means for making photocopies from its repertoire of more than 1.75 milliions titles.

• CONFU
  The Conference for Fair Use within the digital environment.

• Electronic Reference Formats Recommended by the American Psychological Association (APA)
  How to Cite Information From the Internet and the World Wide Web.

• The Elements of Style by William Strunk, Jr.
  This classic reference gives in brief space the principal requirements of plain English style and concentrates attention on the rules of usage and principles of composition most commonly violated.

• How to Find Publisher Information .
  The National Library of Medicine's tips on finding publisher information

• Instructions to Authors in Health Sciences
  Contains links to Web sites which provide instructions to authors for over 3,000 journals in the health and life sciences.

• List of Serials Indexed for Online Users
  Provides information for serials indexed in MEDLINE: title, title abbreviation, first and last years of publication, ISSN, NLM Unique Identifier, and preceding and suceeding entries.

• MeSH Browser
  2000 MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) including Supplementary Concept Records through July 6, 2000

• MLA Style Guide
  This style guide, adapted from The MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, provides examples of how to document source material when preparing scholarly papers.

• Turaban Style Guide
  A tip sheet for some of the common citations used in bibliographies.

• U.S. Copyright Office
  The Library of Congress Copyright Office. U.S. Copyright Act of 1976  (title 17 of U.S. Code) from Cornell University