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APA Style Resources

Many SLIS faculty require APA style. The Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (5th edition) is available through bookstores and is listed in the SLIS e-Bookstore. In addition, a sampling of Web sites that provide helpful highlights and summaries are listed below.

The Son of Citation Machine linked at the bottom of this page has citation engines for several style guides.

Note: Sites not officially associated with APA may not reflect the most current APA style rules. The Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (5th edition) is the official style manual.

Webcast: SJSU Writing Center on APA Style

Watch Jan Hagemann of the SJSU Writing Center present a lecture on APA.

View Webcast | Download PowerPoint Slides (PDF)

The Official APA Site:

APA Style
www.apastyle.org/
Includes information on citing electronic references, style tips, and online purchasing of the APA Publication Manual, Style Guides, and APA Style-Helper software.

APA Style Guide to Electronic References

SLIS has a 29-page PDF guide available only to students currently registered for classes in the School of Library & Information Science. It is login and password restricted. If you qualify, see APA Style Guide to Electronic References for further details.

Formatting the List of References

Assembling a List of Works Cited in Your Paper
http://www.lib.duke.edu/libguide/works_cited.htm
Kelley A. Lawton and Laura Cousineau, Duke University Libraries
Citations are shown in the format of the 4 major style manuals: APA, Turabian, Chicago, and MLA.

American Psychological Association (APA) Format (5th Edition)
Owen Williams, University of Minnesota, Crookston
http://www.crk.umn.edu/library/links/apa5th.htm
A concise list of sample citations for the list of references.

APA Style Guide: 5th Edition
www.lib.usm.edu/help/style_guides/apa.html
University of Southern Mississippi Libraries
Sample citations for the reference list accompanied by helpful additional information.

Formatting the Entire Paper

Eastern Washington University Research Tutorial
support.library.ewu.edu/reference/tutorial/flash/citation.html
This is a Flash-based tutorial on citing sources. It has both APA and MLA style rules. For APA, choose the APA path on the third slide or just jump to it by choosing "Main Menu." Nice rollovers with additional information about each part of the citation.

The OWL at Purdue
owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/
An online resource written by David Neyhart and Erin Karper. There are 15 sections with topics such as an APA Overview; Avoiding Plagiarism; Documenting Electronic Resources; Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Summarizing; and many examples.

APA Style Essentials
www.vanguard.edu/faculty/ddegelman/index.aspx?doc_id=796
Douglas Degelman, Ph.D., and Martin Lorenzo Harris, Ph.D.
Vanguard University of Southern California
Concise list of style rules for the entire research paper from margins and font to footnotes, references, and appendices.

APA Research Style Crib Sheet
Russ Dewey, Georgia Southern University
www.docstyles.com/apacrib.htm
Fairly detailed listing of APA rules for all aspects of a research paper.

A modified presubmission checklist. Journal of Undergraduate Research, 6, 142-144.
Dunn, J., Ford, K., Rewey, K. L., Juve, J. A., Weiser, A., and Davis, S.
F. (2001).
www.psichi.org/pdf/presub.pdf
Topics in the article include general formatting and typing, title page,
abstract, body of the manuscript, and the reference section. The
pertinent section of the Publication Manual accompanies each topic.

APA Style Resource written for SJSU SLIS
This guide has examples of APA style for books, journals, newspapers, electronic materials, conferences, lectures/presentations, book reviews, thesis/dissertation, and oral history. It includes quizzes so that you can test your APA knowledge and learn more!

Citation Generator

Son of Citation Machine by The Landmark Project
www.citationmachine.net
Note that this will not be able to generate every kind of citation, but it can help with the standard citations in APA, MLA, or Chicago styles.

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