Citing your sources properly will help you avoid plagiarism. The information on this page will help you do just that.
There are several citation formats, APA, MLA, and Chicago are the most common. For your ESL classes you will be using APA style. The guide below will provide you with information for creating citations in APA format.
APA (American Psychological Association)
*Use hanging indentation after the first row of text if reference is multiple rows of text long.
Author, A. A. (Year of publication). Title of work: Capital letter also for subtitle. Publisher. DOI (if available)
Author, A. A., Author B. B., & Author, C. C. (Year). Title of article. Title of Periodical, volume number(issue number), pages. http://dx.doi.org/xx.xxx/yyyy
Author, A. A., & Author, B.B. (Year, Month Date). Title of webpage. Name of Website. URL
(Author, Year of publication, p. #)
APA style introduction (n.d.). Purdue OWL. Retrieved July 16, 2021, from https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/apa_style/apa_style_introduction.html
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There are three ways you can integrate sources into your paper.
For more information and to see examples of how to integrate sources, see the Integrate Sources Into Your Paper link below.