How to Use this Guide

This guide is intended to help students understand the basics of APA style for writing research papers and contains resources to guide one through the citation process.
- APA BasicsThis page contains links to the Online Writing Lab (OWL) at Purdue University with helpful information on APA formatting; the Hacker APA website; a short video on how to use NoodleBib to create journal citations in APA; a link to SRJC's NoodleBib service; and a short tutorial from the APA on APA style in general.
- Cite Journal ArticlesThis page displays what a journal citation looks like in APA style. The citation is labeled so that you can understand key elements of this source type and also shows the source for the citation as it appears in the database in which it was found.
- Cite BooksThis page displays an APA formatted citation for a book, and shows labeled images of the source of information for the book citation.
- Cite WebsitesThis page of the guide shows an APA formatted citation for a web page from a website. It also displays what the original source looks like so that you can see how the two correlate.
- All About DOIsDOI stands for Digital Object Identifier. Links on this page help you figure out if a DOI exists for your source and guide you through the citation process.
- Sample References ListThis page shows example citations with explanations regarding APA guidelines. It also links to a printer-friendly example References list.
- Citing Tool: NoodleBibUse NoodleBib to help you create perfect APA citations.
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