Chicago Manual of Style Notes and Bibliography (Required citation style by ACRL)
APA Inclusive Style Guidelines (Required language guidelines for authors by Editors)
Conscious Style Guide (Suggested for authors by Editors)
Committee on Publication Ethics’s (COPE) (Suggested for authors by Editors)
As a chapter author of a monographic work, what is the copyright agreement I must sign?
ACRL sends an agreement to every chapter author that:
Keeps copyright of the work in the author’s name.
Allows authors to append a Creative Commons license of their choosing. If there is more than one author to a chapter, all authors have to be in agreement on the CC license for the chapter.
Why should I choose one Creative Commons license over another?
You can read about the different CC licenses, and how they allow readers to reuse, distribute, and adapt your content, from Creative Commons. You are also free to choose not to append a CC license to your chapter.
Can I place my chapter in my IR or let someone else republish it?
The agreement allows you to deposit your chapter in your Institutional Repository, as well as any analytics and bookmarking sites or reference manager programs that can track and promote your research. ACRL has right of first publication, meaning you may republish your work elsewhere only after ACRL has published it, and you must add a credit line that states that the work was originally published by ACRL and provide the citation.