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@ 2009-06-18 19:15:00
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APA Citation Help
 Hey everyone, I'm working on a paper for a class and the professor requires APA formatting. I've only ever done MLA and I'm completely lost - I've tried googling a few times and I feel that each example is slightly different from the others. It's an online course and we don't have a book so he hasn't provided an example of what he's looking for. Is anyone here knowledgeable of APA or know of a credited website? I tried easybib.com at someone's recommendation but you have to pay to use the APA citation generator and I really don't want to do that.
Help please? :(

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[info]esmeraldus_neo
2009-06-18 11:21 pm UTC (link)
This is something you can Google.

Have you tried "APA citation format" in Google? The first thing that turns up is the OWL at Purdue University, which has some of the best online writing resources available.

If you can't Google, might want to shell out the money for EndNote.

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[info]lovingprose
2009-06-18 11:45 pm UTC (link)
If you are an MS Word user, there is a function under "references" where you can add in-text citations and do a bibliography in whatever format you need. They have APA on there. It's very easy.

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[info]manderleys
2009-06-22 12:45 am UTC (link)
THANK YOU SO MUCH!

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[info]colormeeggshell
2009-06-18 11:59 pm UTC (link)
If you don't have MS Word 2007, you probably don't have the instant reference feature.

If you have 2003 or earlier, or are just curious, I've always been directed to the Owl at Perdue site, as they supposedly have the most up to date style guides. <http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/>

If that fails, check out the American Psychological Association site, they will link you right to their official style guide. <http://apastyle.apa.org/>

The APA site is probably your best bet, though. I've used it a few times for Education papers and its pretty solid. Hope that works out for you!

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[info]basketcasex39
2009-06-19 12:39 am UTC (link)
I had to do an APA style paper for my AP Psychology final paper, and one of the first things the teacher said was that EasyBib didn't format correctly anyway, so I wouldn't spend the money on it in case it actually doesn't do it right. The APA site itself, as [info]colormeeggshell stated above, is probably your best resource. Since they created the format, they will probably be the most useful at trying to execute it properly.

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[info]sisypheantask
2009-06-19 01:47 am UTC (link)
I'd second using Purdue's OWL: here. Great resource! Or go to your library and use the APA style guide, which is probably in the reference section. Or pick up a cheap style guide at your bookstore that covers both MLA and APA, since it'll be useful later. (the APA style guide is great, but kinda expensive if you're barely going to use it later.)

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[info]th1rd_engine
2009-06-19 03:36 am UTC (link)
http://www.dianahacker.com/resdoc

I use this for pretty much everything.

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