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Music Guide: Cite It

Quick access to the top music resources

Citation Management Software

Citation management software can help keep your citations from various article databases organized and can assist in creating footnotes and bibliographies. Learn more by following the links below!

Citation Management Software
Guides for using Zotero, Mendeley, EndNote Basic and RefWorks to make saving and creating citations easy
Citation Management Appointment
Make an appointment to meet one-on-one with a librarian and learn how to use a citation manager!

Online Citation Resources

The Chicago manual of style online
Citation & Writing Guides
UW created citation guide covering a variety of citation styles
Citing Music
Created by the Music Library at the University of Western Ontario this guide focuses on Turabian style
Elements of Style by William Strunk, Jr.
Full text of the 1918 edition of Strunk's "Elements of Style"

Writing about Music by D. Kern Holoman
ISBN: 9780520958814
Publication Date: 2014-09-05
Where do you place the hyphen in "Beethoven" if it breaks between two lines? How do you cite John Coltrane's album A Love Supreme? Is it "premiere" or "première"? The answers and much more can be found in this definitive resource for authors, students, editors, concert producers--anyone who deals with music in print.

Citation Style Help

Irvine's writing about music by Demar Irving
ISBN: 1574670492
Writing about music by Richard Wingell
ISBN: 0136157785
A short guide to writing about music by Jonathan Bellman
ISBN: 0321187911

Last Updated: Aug 25, 2020 11:52 AM
URL: https://guides.lib.uw.edu/research/music
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Subjects: Arts, Music & Audio

Tags: music