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9.7: APA Citation

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    This page is currently under construction.

    In the meantime, here are are some helpful resources to get you started on APA formatting and citation, all courtesy of the Purdue OWL(Online Writing Lab), a great resource that you should check out and use extensively if you are not already doing so!

    Click here for information about general layout and formatting in an APA paper.

    Click here for information about in-text citations, which look quite different than what we see in MLA.

    • this page will help you understand how to introduce authors/sources in APA, which, again, looks different from MLA

    Click here for information about APA formatted Works Cited, particularly electronic sources (which are what we often use in research projects.

     


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