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APA Style Resources

Many SLIS faculty require APA style. The Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (6th 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.

Note: Sites not officially associated with APA may not reflect the most current APA style rules. The Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (6th edition) is the official style manual.

The Official APA Site

APA Style
www.apastyle.org/ link goes to non-SJSU web site
Includes information on learning the basics of APA style and what's new in the 6th edition .

The July 2009 printing of the 6th edition of the APA Style Manual has a few errors, particularly in the sample papers. See These online resources for updates and corrections:

APA's list of corrections to the first printing (July 2009) of the 6th edition: http://supp.apa.org/style/pubman-reprint-corrections-for-2e.pdf link goes to non-SJSU web site

Sample papers (corrected versions of those in the 6th edition):

Additional Resources

The OWL at Purdue
owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/ link goes to non-SJSU web site
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 link goes to non-SJSU web site
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 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.

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