For college-level students, remembering how to properly provide citations in research papers can be a cumbersome task - especially as students toggle between different citation styles for different disciplines. The Chicago Manual of Style has served as a guide for generations of writers and includes two different methods of in-text citation: a notes and bibliography style and an author-date style....

The Yale College Writing Center "supports writers and writing teachers through the resources on this website" and consequently support an audience far beyond New Haven. First-time visitors should look at the Advice for Students to get started. Here, they will find areas that include "What Good Writers Know" and "Model Papers from the Disciplines.” The first area contains short and succinct advice...