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Citing Sources: APA Style

If you use someone else's ideas in your paper you must document the sources, whether you provide a direct quotation or merely included ideas from something you read. Citing sources gives credit to the authors for their ideas and allows other people to find and explore the sources you consulted and quoted.

Handbooks Web Resources

Handbooks

Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association BF76.7 .P83 2001
This handbook will provide all of the information needed to format and write a research paper using APA style including citing sources.

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Web Resources

The following websites provide information and examples of in-text and citation pages using APA format.

APA Style FAQ
This site, produced by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, provides examples of in-text citations and bibliography entries.

APA Citation Formats
This site, produced by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, provides examples of in-text citations and bibliography entries.

APA Style Electronic References
This site, part of APAstyle.org, provides the latest updates on APA Style and citing electronic media.

Online!
Presents guidelines from the American Psychological Association (APA) with examples for citing and documenting World Wide Web sites, e-mail messages, Web discussion forum postings, listserv and newsgroup messages, real-time communications (MOOs, MUDs, IRCs), telnet sites, FTP sites, gopher sites, and linkage data are provided.

Citing Electonic Documentation
Compiled by the University of Minnesota Rhetoric Department, this site provides in-text and bibliographic citation information for mutliple electronic formats, from web pages to email to e-journals.

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Citing Sources
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