LibGuides: General Reference: APA Citation Help

Style Guidelines from American Psychological Association
Purdue OWL APA
These OWL resources will help you learn how to use the American Psychological Association (APA) citation and format style.

Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association by American Psychological Association Staff
Call Number: REF ENGLISH (TC Reserve Shelves)
ISBN: 9781433805592
Publication Date: 2009-07-15

General Format
Purdue OWL's guide to APA format is thorough and an excellent reference to consult.
Sample Paper--APA
This is an example APA paper and how to format your document such as spacing, margins, abstract, etc.

APA In-Text Citations: The Basics (Purdue's OWL)
How to quote material in your APA paper. Short and long quotations, paraphrasing, and also capitalization and italics/underlining.
APA In-Text Citations: Citing an Author or Authors (Purdue's OWL)
How to properly cite a work by an author or multiple authors. Shows what to do when you cite a source that was cited in another source.

APA Reference Page: Basic Rules (Purdue's OWL)
Short, basic information on how your Reference/Sources Page should be formatted
Articles in Periodicals--APA
Journals, magazines, newspapers, letters to the editor, and book reviews.
Books--APA
Basic format for books and multi-volume works.
Other Electronic Sources--APA
Interviews, emails, motion pictures, television, music recordings.
Other Print Sources--APA
Entry in an encyclopedia, source discussed in another source, published government documents, reports from a private organization, conference proceedings.
Electronic Sources--APA
Article from a database, newspaper article, electronic books, chapter or section of a web document or online book chapter, online book reviews, online encyclopedias and dictionaries.

Merrian-Webster Dictionary defines plagiarism as:

stealing or passing off the ideas or words of another as your own.
using another's work without crediting the source.
committing literary theft.
presenting as new and original an idea or product derived from an existing source.

Visit these websites for more information on plagiarism and how to avoid it.

Be very careful to cite sources correctly. Plagiarism and academic dishonesty is very serious!