General Resources
Citation Guides Selected Databases WSU Reference Sources Selected Web Pages
Even though engineering disciplines haven't accepted a specific citation style, using style guides can help you create citations that are clear, concise and complete. There are dozens of citation styles. Some of the more popular styles are:
MLA Produced by the Modern Language Association of America, the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers is one of the most commonly used style guides. It tends to focus on the humanistic disciplines but can be extrapolated for use in all disciplines. Help sheet.
APA The Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association is the style guide used by many social science disciplines. Help sheet.
Chicago The Chicago Manual of Style is another common style used by many disciplines. Kate Turabian sets out a simplified version of the Chicago style in her book, A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations : Chicago Style for Students and Researchers. Help sheet.
The WSU Libraries subscribe to several databases which can be used to identify and access scholarly literature. Some of the more helpful ones for engineering in general are:
Compendex/INSPEC through Engineering Village Compendax and INSPEC are two of the best indexes to engineering literature. They are searched simultaneously through the Engineering Village interface. Compendex indexes includes millions of bibliographic citations and abstracts from thousands of engineering journals and conference proceedings from all areas of engineering and technology. INSPEC focuses on physics, electrical engineering, and computer science but indexes literature from all technical fields.
IEEE Xplore The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is the largest publisher of scholarly engineering research in the world. Even though they a professional organization for electrical engineering, they publish journals and conference reports that are of interest to every branch of engineering. IEEE Xplore indexes the journals, conference reports, and standard published by IEEE. Full-text of the journals published since 1998 is available through the database.
Applied Science Full Text The Applied Science Full Text database provides an index to a core set of journals in the areas of applied science and technology back to 1983. Abstracts were are included for most records since 1993. Full-text is included for “select” journals from 1998.
NTIS The NTIS Database produced by the National Technical Information Service, is the preeminent resource for accessing the latest U.S. government-sponsored research and worldwide scientific, technical, engineering, and business-related information. NTIS is the central source for the sale of unclassified and publicly available information from research reports, journal articles, data files, computer programs and audio visual products from Federal sources.
Engineering reference sources including dictionaries, encyclopedias, and handbooks are located in the reference collection in the “T” call numbers. Some of the most commonly used items like the ASTM Standards and the ASM Handbooks are kept at Index Table 3. Other call number areas of interest in the reference collection are “QA” (Math and Computer Science), “QC” (Physics), and “QD” (Chemistry).
Knovel Library This database combines authoritative reference content from major Sci-tech publishers. This data is enhanced with time-saving analytical tools to help analyze and manipulate the data. It includes data in over 700 full-text engineering a scientific reference works, handbooks, and databases. To avoid frustration search in “My Subscription” rather that the “Entire Knovel Library.” This will limit the search to resources we have access to electronically.
ASM Handbooks Online ASM Handbooks Online features the complete content of twenty-four ASM Handbook volumes plus two ASM Desk Editions.
Intuit: Science, Engineering and Technology Intute: Science, Engineering and Technology (formerly known as EEVL) is a free online service providing you with access to the very best Web resources for education and research, evaluated and selected by a network of subject specialists. It covers the physical sciences, engineering, computing, geography, mathematics and environmental science. The database currently contains 34957 records.
TechXtra Find articles, key websites, books, the latest industry news, job announcements, ejournals, eprints, technical reports, the latest research, thesis & dissertations and more! Many of the things you’ll find through TechXtra come from the ‘Hidden Web’, and are not indexed by Google.
eiNET.net eiNET.net utilizes a team of skilled Internet Librarians to scour the Web, locating and categorizing quality content for placement in their applicable categories, resulting in a large breadth of topics and an impressive depth of content within the directory. Employing this process, eiNET.net has grown to one of the Web's largest directories, containing nearly 2,000,000 listings across nearly 700,000 categories.
Greatest Engineering Achievements of the 20th Century The Greatest Engineering Achievements website celebrates a remarkable century of technological achievement. The website contains detailed historical information, timelines, and personal essays by key innovators for each of 20 major engineering accomplishments of the 20th century. The content for the site is adapted from the 2003 book, A Century of Innovation: Twenty Engineering Achievements That Transformed Our Lives. The book was developed through a project initiated by the National Academy of Engineering.
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