APA/Chicago Manual of Style Resources

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The Learning Resource Center has the APA Publication Manual 6th edition and the Chicago Manual of Style 15th edition. We also support Zotero. Zotero [zoh-TAIR-oh] is a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources. It lives right where you do your work—in the web browser. See Zotero for download, details and video.

APA tutorial Tutorial developed by Paul Blobaum, M.A., M.S., Associate Professor, College of Health and Human Services Librarian, Governors State University Library  

Offical APA website -On this site, you will find tutorials, FAQs, and other resources to help you improve your writing, master APA Style, and learn the conventions of scholarly publishing.

Official Chicago Manual of Style website This website has a quick guide.

Noodletools  Just need one or two quick citations and not an entire source list? NoodleBib Express includes all of the citation forms (MLA, APA, and Chicago/Turabian) available in the subscription version. The difference? Your citations are not compiled into a source list and cannot be saved -- you'll copy and paste the citation you create into your document.

Purdue OWL APA (American Psychological Association) is most commonly used to cite sources within the social sciences. This resource, revised according to the 6th edition of the APA manual, offers examples for the general format of APA research papers, in-text citations, endnotes/footnotes, and the reference page. Please use the example at the bottom of this page to cite the Purdue OWL in APA.