Citation Style Guides

This page will provide links to various types of style guides available on the Internet. Use these to format citations for papers.

APA - 7th edition

Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association - 7th Edition Call Number: BF76.7 P83 2020

1 copy at Parks Library Main Desk & 1 copy in Reference Collection on Tier 2 (1 week checkout - no renewals).

Basics of citing journal articles, books and book chapters.

The OWL program at Purdue has some excellent instructional guides, among them this guide to APA explaining and showing examples for formatting a research paper and citation styles.

Citing Journal articles with no page numbers

Many electronic journals do not have actual page numbers - - they provide an "article number" instead of page numbers.

In APA Style - here is an example of how to cite it:

Jerrentrup, A., Mueller, T., Glowalla, U., Herder, M., Henrichs, N., Neubauer, A., & Schaefer, J. R. (2018). Teaching medicine with the help of “Dr. House.” PLoS ONE, 13(3), Article e0193972. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0193972

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