SOWK300: Research in Applied Professions
Use American Psychological Association (APA) Style
Online help
APA formatting and style guide - Excelsior College OWL
Click-through guide with citation examples and more
APA guidance from the CSU Writing Center (online)
APA guidance from the CSU Writing Center.
APA exposed tutorials - Harvard (online)
Multiple, brief online tutorials.
APA style blog (online)
Guidance from APA style experts.
Official guides
Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (print)
Libraries copies of the complete, 6th edition guide to APA style.
APA style guide to electronic resources (online PDF)
Guidance on citing specifically electronic resources (websites, online journal articles, and more). CSU affiliates may print or save this guide for personal use.
Locate DOIs
CrossRef.org's Simple Text Query (online)
Enter citations and readily locate existing DOIs.
Discover Writing and Citing Tools
Zotero
Zotero is a free bibliographic tool that allows you to store and organize references, and easily capture citation information from web pages and databases. You can use Zotero to generate citations and bibliographies and directly insert them into your papers using Microsoft Word, Google Docs, or LibreOffice.
Download info is available at http://www.zotero.org
Learn more
- Libraries Zotero guide
- Zotero Support for instructions and other tips and tricks