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Why Cite?
The primary reasons for citing sources when presenting research are:
- to give credit to the authors whose work you have drawn upon, and
- to allow readers to track down your sources, should they wish to do so.
Help with APA Style
- APA Formatting & Style Guide (Purdue University OWL)The Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL) provides information about documenting and citing sources in APA, MLA and Chicago styles. This resource is easily searchable and highly recommended.
- Publication Manual of the American Psychological AssociationBook: Call Number BF76.7 .P83 2010 (LAU Ref and Stacks)
- APA Style Guide to Electronic ReferencesAvailable online via Georgetown Box account. Click on "CONNECT TO ONLINE RESOURCE" at the bottom.
- In-Class Handout: Citation TrackingProvides Georgetown-specific guidance on using APA-style citations to identify and location different types of resources.
Citation Tools
- ZoteroZotero is a free tool designed to help you gather, manage and share information about books, articles, web pages and other digital objects that you are using in your research, and to generate citations and bibliographies. Zotero is a Mozilla browser plugin. You can choose to gather your data on your hard drive (if you are working mainly from one computer), or on a flash drive or a network (if you frequently access your data at multiple workstations).
- RefworksRefWorks is an online research management, writing and collaboration tool designed to help researchers gather, manage, store, and share information and generate citations and bibliographies.
- How To Cite Data (MSU Library)A concise page with helpful tips on citing your data and examples from three official style guides (APA, MLA, and Chicago). Includes information about how to cite tables, datasets, and citing within text. From Michigan State University Libraries.
