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Writing and Citing in Nursing

APA (American Psychological Association) is a citation style commonly used by Nursing researchers to format papers, cite sources and create reference lists.

Save time & Use a Tool: Zotero

Save time, use a citation manager like Zotero to organize papers you find, and format your references as you write your paper in Word. Zotero works for many citation styles such as APA, MLA, Chicago & more!

To get started:

  1.  Download Zotero (free)
  2.  Sign up for a free account
  3.  Download the Zotero connector for your browser (works for Chrome, Firefox, Safari & Opera).  This will allow you to add items to your Zotero 'Library' with 1 click
  4. Sync your account. Login to your "desktop" version of Zotero with the information you used to create your Zotero account. 
  5. Start adding citations!

Get Citations from the Library Catalogue

screenshot of catalogue citations options