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Citation Style Guides

Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, Revised 6th Edition
Call Number: BF76.7 .P83 2010
ISBN: 1433805626
Publication Date: 2010
Copies located at both Central Library and Science & Engineering Library. In addition to providing clear guidance on grammar, the mechanics of writing, and APA style, the Publication Manual offers an authoritative and easy-to-use reference and citation system and comprehensive coverage of the treatment of numbers, metrication, statistical and mathematical data, tables, and figures for use in writing, reports, or presentations.

All About APA
Everything you could possibly want to know about APA, 6th edition. Guide created by Peace Williamson.
UTA Libraries Guide to APA
Purdue Online Writing Lab APA Overview

APA Style Guide to Electronic References, 6th Edition (online)
ISBN: 9781433807046
Publication Date: 2012
Adapted from the sixth edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, this comprehensive guide offers up-to-date information on formatting electronic references in APA Style. It outlines the key elements to include when referencing electronic sources, with an emphasis on using the digital object identifier (DOI) to locate web-based information reliably. Most important, it provides a wealth of examples for readers to model for everything from online journal articles to supplemental data sets and measurement instruments to books, videos, apps, websites, podcasts, blog posts, and social media.

The Chicago Manual of Style, 17th Edition (online)
Call Number: E-book version
ISBN: 9780226287058
Publication Date: 2017
The Chicago Manual of Style Online is completely searchable and easy to use, providing quick answers to your style and editing questions. The Q&A content is fully searchable along with the content of The Chicago Manual of Style. The Chicago Manual of Style Online also provides convenient Tools, such as sample forms, letters, and style sheets.

Citation Management Tools

Need help organizing your sources?

Use a citation management tool to create personalized databases of your source references.

Citation management applications will allow you to:

import and organize citations,
create folders for different projects,
share folders with collaborators on group projects,
format citations and create reference lists in various styles, and
write and store your personalized notes and annotations.

EndNote Guide
by Engineering Librarian Last Updated May 10, 2024 1467 views this year

EndNote Online (EndNote Basic) This link opens in a new window
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EndNote (Basic) Online is an online reference management solution. EndNote online users can create an online library with up to 50,000 references and up to 2GB of attachments. As part of UTA's Web of Science subscription, EndNote Online offers users registered with UTA emails thousands of styles and hundreds of filters and connection files.
For assistance on navigating through EndNote, please see this LibGuide
Web of Science users may sign in to the Web of Science and
click the EndNote link from the top menu bar to open your EndNote
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Mendeley
Mendeley is a free reference manager and academic social network that can help you organize your research, collaborate with others online, and discover the latest research.

Zotero Guide
by Morgan Rowe-Morris Last Updated Dec 8, 2023 3503 views this year

Zotero
Zotero is an open-source online citation management tool (CMT). It is a fully fledged CMT that enables users to create, manage, and format all of their citations from books, journal articles, websites, and other types of sources. It is especially well suited to Internet-based research. For UTA's guide to using Zotero, please see:

APA Examples (updated for 7th edition)

Journal Article with a DOI

Author, A. A. (Year). Title of article. Title of Journal, Vol. Number(Issue Number), Pages. DOI

Stultz, J. (2006). Integrating exposure therapy and analytic therapy in trauma treatment. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 76(4), 482-488. https://doi.org/10.1037/0002-9432.76.4.482

Webpage

Author, A. A., & Author, B. B. (Year, Month Day). Web page title. URL

Cain, A., & Buris, M. (1999, April). Investigation of the use of mobile phone while driving. http://www.cutr.eng.usf.edu/its/mobile_phone_txt.htm

E-Book

Author, A. A. (Year). Title. Place of Publication: Publisher.

Burke, P. (2017). Exiles and expatriates in the history of knowledge, 1500-2000. Brandeis University Press.

MLA Examples

Journal Article Accessed Online

Author’s Name. “Title of Article.” Title of Journal, Volume Number, Issue Number, Publication Date, Inclusive Pages,Title of Database/Web Site, URL/DOI.

Link, Alex. “Lauging Androids, Weeping Zombies, and Edgar Allan Poe.” ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance, vol. 58, no. 3, 2012, pp. 257-293, Project Muse, www.muse.jhu.edu/article/498619/pdf.

Webpage

Author’s Name. “Title of Web Page.” Title of Web Site, Sponsoring Organization or Publisher, Publication Date, URL.

“Armadillo.” National Geographic, 2016, www.animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/armadillo.

If there is no author, begin the reference with the document title or web page title. If the organization or publisher is the same as the web site title, then only list it once.

Print Book

Author’s Name. Title of Book. Publisher, Publication Date.

Gaiman, Neil and Terry Pratchett. Good Omens. Ace, 1990.