POL JP08: National Security, Intelligence, and Law Enforcement Reform Post 9/11 

The Politics Department does not require you to use any particular style for citations in your papers, but your professor may have a prefrence.

The three most widely used styles in Politics papers are:

• Chicago
• APA
• MLA

Always ask your professors which style they prefer.

In addition, some professors require that you use Blue Book format for any legal citations you make.

See our Citing Sources page for more information.

The library supports two major software packages for managing citations: EndNote & RefWorks.

Both allow you to:

• import references from the main catalog, article databases and even Google Scholar and Google Book Search
• manage your own collection of references and create project-specific folders
• handle and edit references from all sorts of sources (i.e. books, chapters, articles, papers, Web sites, etc.)
• insert references directly into your paper via MS Word
• generate your bibliography in any of a wide variety of styles and append it to your paper

For more on how to get started with EndNote or RefWorks, and to sign up for a training session, see Managing Your Bibliographic References.