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SOC 210: Critical Thinking about Social Issues (Laz) : Documenting your sources

APA Style Resources - 7th Edition

For help creating citations:

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Many of our databases provide you with help formatting your citations according to APA, MLA, or other citation styles. 

In the EBSCO databases (Academic Search Complete, Historical Abstracts, PsycInfo), when you print, email, or save your citations, you can change the setting from the default "standard field format" to "citation format", and then choose the style you want.

Citation Tools

  • Son of Citation Machine  
    (Beginning-level / APA, MLA)
  • RefWorks
    a web-based citation management tool that helps you share and organize citations as well as quickly generate bibliographies and insert citations into papers. 
  • Zotero 
    (an open-source Firefox extension)