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APA Style Guide Information
Citation
What, specifically, is the point of academic citation? It seems tedious, difficult, and needlessly complicated, right? Put simply, the goal of citation is to allow your reader to check/synthesize/further research your work with ease and speed. To that end, your goal in citing every resource must be to clearly and correctly direct a reader to your research source.
In-Text citations
Citations made within the body text of your paper should clearly point your reader to the corresponding entry in your Reference List. Typically, in-text citations should either appear parenthetically or within the general body of your sentence and should typically follow the "last-name-followed-by-the-year-of-publication" pattern.
Reference List
Diana Hacker's website is one of the best citation and style sites available. Here, you will find everything from specific in-text citation breakdowns to line-by-line examples of the reference entries of all types. www.dianahacker.com
The University of Wisconsin, home of the some one of the best writing programs in the country, displays wonderfully user-friendly and accurate APA Citation information in this site. http://www.wisc.edu/writetest/Handbook/DocAPACitations.html
Lamson Library and Learning Commons APA style guide
Lamson Library and Learning Commons MLA style guide
APA Style guide online
APA Style guide electronic references- how to cite electronic media
