The writing style and citation format used in education is known as APA, produced by the American Psychological Association.
The library has several copies of the current APA Publication Manual, in Reference, (Call Number: REF BF76.7 .P83 2010), OR, click on the link below to view an online version of this style guide!
Publication manual of the American Psychological Association
Refer to the website, www.apastyle.org, for tutorials and examples of APA style.
Other useful resources:
Because online materials can potentially change URLs, the new APA style (6th edition) requires including the Digital Object Identifier (DOI), if available, in the citation of an electronic article, as opposed to the URL. DOIs are an attempt to provide stable, long-lasting links for online articles. They are unique to their documents and consist of a long alphanumeric code. Many-but not all-publishers will provide an article's DOI on the first page of the document.
Typically the DOI is located on the first page of an e-journal article near the copyright notice OR in the database record for the article. If the DOI is not available, provide the home page URL of the journal. You may need to do a quick web search for the journal title to locate this URL.
Article Title Page Example of DOI:
Special Collections Surge to the Fore
Sarah M. Pritchard
portal: Libraries and the Academy, Volume 9, Number 2, April2009, pp. 177-180 (Article)Published by The Johns Hopkins University PressDOI: 10.1353/pla.0.0047
Some library databases, such as those from EBSCOhost and Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, allow you to get bibliographic information in selected styles such as APA or MLA when emailing and saving records.
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Western Carolina University Library
