APA Style refers to guidelines developed by the American Psychological Association for authors. The APA style uses an author-date system of citation, in which brief citations within the text direct the reader to the corresponding entries in the reference list at the end of the paper. The entries in this list provide the full publication information for the sources used for the paper, allowing readers to trace these sources for their own use.
For more information, please see the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association which is available in the Library Reference collection.
You can also find more information, including examples of citations, in our library Help files.
Anatomy of a Scholarly Article shows you in just one screen the different parts of a scholarly article.
How to Read a Scientific Paper helps show that we get better comprehension if we don't read such studies in numerical page order, but rather by using specific sections first.
This tutorial, called You Quote It, You Note It! developed by the librarians at Acadia University, is helpful for making sure you understand what is/is not plagarism.
Zotero is an online application that lets you organize citations for the articles and books you consult, read and cite as part of your research.
You can send citation information about books, articles, and more to your free Zotero account from the library catalogue and databases.
Zotero will also help you format your citations and bibliography while writing your paper.
> For more tips for using Zotero, visit our the Zotero page of our Citation Management guide.
This is a great site for learning more about formatting citations. There are lots of examples of different kinds of citations, for books and articles or webpages.
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