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APA Style Help

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Style Guides

APA is an acronym for the American Psychological Association. The Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association is often used for research work in the social sciences.

WSU APA Guide
APA formatting tips and tutorials from the WSU Libraries.
APA Formatting and Style Guide (Excelsior Online Writing Lab)
Links to the Formatting and Style guide for APA Citation, provided by the Online Writing Lab (OWL) of Purdue University, if you can use it in a paper, they can show you how to cite it.
APA Style Blog
All the latest fashions and trends in APA Style. Try searching for your specific issue. Great for social media and other rapidly evolving source types.
Tutorial from APA
This tutorial gives an overview of using APA style. Brief sections discuss setting up the format, citing sources within the text, and creating end references. Several examples are given. A search feature on the right allows the user to focus on areas of interest.
APA Writer's Handbook
From the University of Wisconsin-Madison
How to Cite Social Media in APA Style (Twitter, Facebook, and Google+)
From the APA Style Blog.

Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA) by American Psychological Association
Call Number: BF76.7 .A46
Publication Date: 2010 (6th Edition)
Copies are located in Reference, Reserve, and the Third Floor stacks

MLA Style Help

MLA stands for Modern Languages Association. The MLA Style Manual is often used for formatting and citing references when writing papers in the liberal arts and humanities.

MLA Citation Guide
Created by WSU Libraries, this guide provides examples of citations for many resource types.
MLA Formatting and Style Guide (Excelsior Online Writing Lab)
This website provides writing help including detailed information about using MLA to format and to write a research paper. Lots of examples using different types of scholarly materials are provided.
MLA Writer's Handbook
This site provides a basic overview with examples of how to use MLA style when writing a research paper.
Ask the MLA
Advice on unusual formats and situations, especially good for social media and other rapidly evolving source types.

MLA Handbook by The Modern Language Association of America
Call Number: PE1478 .M57 2016
ISBN: 9781603292627
Publication Date: 2016-04-01

Citation Builders

These are sites that will help you "build" citations. They're pretty accurate, but be sure to cover your bases by comparing the citations against those in a style manual. Just choose MLA or APA and the type of source you need to create a citation for (a book, a journal article, etc.), and input all of the necessary information.

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