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Citation styles and guides

The most comprehensive of these guides that we recommend you check is the Harvard Business School guide.

General guides

Citing electronic resources

Harvard style
(also known as the Author-Date system, this is the system outlined in the Australian guide: Style manual for authors, editors & printers, 6th ed., 2002.)

Dictionaries and encyclopedias

  • YourDictionary.com indexes on-line dictionaries and thesauri in various languages.
  • NetLingo - a dictionary of internet terms used in the online world of business, technology and communication.
  • NetDictionary - includes technical, cultural and humorous terms related to the internet.
  • Encyclopedia.com contains 17,000 articles. 
  • Britannica.com is the free version of the well-known encyclopaedia and contains a searchable database of 72,000 articles and 12,000 images. It also includes Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary.
  • Wikipedia - a free, multilingual open access encyclopedia.
  • LibrarySpot.com Dictionaries, encyclopedias, government, maps, articles and more. LibrarySpot.com breaks through the information overload of the Web and brings the best library and reference sites together with insightful editorial in one user-friendly spot. Sites featured on LibrarySpot.com are hand-selected and reviewed by LibrarySpot.com editorial team for their exceptional quality, content and utility.

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