APA
APA Online Subscriptions
- APA Style Guide to Electronic ReferencesThis guide shows how to format references for a broad range of electronic sources. General guidelines are reviewed as well as some potentially confusing elements that are unique to electronic referencing, like digital object identifiers (DOIs), uniform resource locators (URLs), and version control. The final section of the guide includes templates and specific reference examples for various types of online sources.
Primary Style or Format Guide
Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association : The Official Guide to APA Style. Seventh ed. American Psychological Association, 2020.
Available at the Reference desks at Lewis Library, Cudahy Library, the IC and Lewis Reserve desk.
APA 7 Style - Resources
- APA "Style Guide" FAQ's and other resources to improve writing, master APA style and learn the conventions of scholarly publishing.
- Reporting Quantitative Research in Psychology: How to Meet APA Style Journal Article Reporting Standars Cooper, Harris M American Psychological Association 2020 These standards lay out the essential pieces information researchers need to report, including detailed accounts of the methods they followed, data results and analysis, interpretations of their findings, and implications for future research. Coming soon in print and online
- Reporting Qualitative Research in Psychology: How to Meet APA Style Journal Article Reporting Standards Coming soon in print and online Levitt, Heidi M American Psychological Association 2020 This book shows researchers how to use the American Psychological Association’s (APA’s) Journal Article Reporting Standards for Qualitative Research (JARS-Qual), Mixed Methods Article Reporting Standards (MMARS), and Qualitative Meta-Analysis Reporting Standards (QMARS).
Other Writing Resources and Tutorials
- Info Research 101 - Surviving Your Essay.Info Research 101 is a self-paced, interactive tutorial designed to provide students in the arts, humanities and social sciences with the necessary foundations and skills to find useful information, to evaluate it critically and to use it wisely for various purposes such as writing research assignments. Helpful examples, practical tips and interactive activities complement the information presented
created by Patrick Labelle (Chair), Olivier Charbonneau, Dubravka Kapa, Sonia Poulin; Design: Marc-Olivier Bergeron for the Concordia University - Diagnosis: PlagiarismThe Yavapai College guide to plagiarism guide, including videos.
- Cite it Right!This module sheet will help writers to identify when citations need to be included in their work as well as how to recognize the information needed when completing a citation.
Designed and developed by UTSA Libraries Learning Technology Department at John Peace Library, University of Texas at San Antonio, 2015.
Citation Managers
Citation Managers are software programs designed to help you organize your resources (books, articles, etc) . Different software has different abilities and features.
- RefWorks This link opens in a new windowWeb-based bibliographic management tool. Allows importation of citations from online indexes databases, organize and manage these citations within folders, automatically format them within papers and create instant bibliographies in a variety of styles.
- ZoteroA browser extension and standalone program for Firefox, Chrome, and Safari that allows you to create personal collections of online documents, add notes and tags, export citations, and create bibliographies.
DOI - what is it?
A Digital Object Identifier (DOI) is a set of alpha-numeric characters which are used to uniquely identify something (usually a document or service) on the web. Although the locations of these items may move over time, the DOI goes with them, allowing you to find them.
To find a document or service using the DOI, use a "resolver." Type or copy the DOI (with all punctuation, letters and numbers) into the search box of resolvers like: