On this page, you will find information about the citation methods used for this course.
APSA citation style is used in Political Science, to cite academic journals, books, and websites. For questions related to APSA, please contact brea.henson@unt.edu.
BlueBook is the style used for citing legal and government documents. BlueBook can be difficult so there are many help guides and pages below. If you still have BlueBook questions, please contact govinfo@unt.edu.
The APSA (American Political Science Association) Manual remains the standard style guide in the Political Science discipline upon which students, faculty members, and well-established scholars authoring manuscripts, as well as editors, copyeditors, and proofreaders, can rely. APSA style, in most instances, follows guidelines outlined in the Chicago Manual of Style, 17th edition (CMS). Throughout this companion website, CMS citation numbers are included in parentheses, when appropriate, to refer readers to specific sections of CMS’s 17th edition.
Lawyers and scholars of the law have developed their own methods of citing legal materials in such documents as court briefs and law journals. Some other general style manuals have also developed specific rules for citing legal materials.