APA Style Help
APA (American Psychological Association) style is the most commonly used citation style in business, economics, social entrepreneurship, and related disciplines. However, please check with your instructor for their preferred citation style before using APA style in your own work. Below are some resources to get you started with APA style.
- APA StyleOfficial site of APA Style.
- APA Style BlogA searchable blog of APA Style providing how-tos, tips and general guidelines.
- Purdue Online Writing LabPurdue OWL help for APA formatting and style.
- Basics of APA Style TutorialAn interactive online tutorial that takes you through the key components of APA style.
APA Manual
Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association by Call Number: BF76.7 .P83 2020 (Copy 1: 1st floor; Copy 2: Ready Reference, 2nd floor, Does not circulate)ISBN: 9781433832161Publication Date: 2019-10-01The Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, Seventh Edition is the official source for APA Style.
Available in print at the library.
Managing Your Citations
A common problem of students writing research papers is that they have lots of books, websites, and PDFs of articles and no real way to keep track of all these things in one place. This is why there are citation management systems (CMSes). CMSes are designed to help you keep track of citations and PDFs. Two good, free CMSes are NoodleTools and Zotero. The links to access these resources are below. If you have any questions about using this software, please contact your librarian, whose contact information is on the right side of this page.
Citation Generators
Citation generator websites are interactive tool to help create reference citations for research papers. With these websites, simply select the citation style and the type of resource (book, article, webpage, etc.), and fill-in the required fields. Your citation will then be created for you, which you can copy and paste into your Reference/Bibliography page.