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ENG104: Introduction to Research Writing: Citations

All those citation styles!!

The library has created a guide with citation examples and paper formatting tips for APA and MLA.

But what about this weird source??

OWL at Purdue's APA Guide
Even more citations and formatting help
OWL at Purdue's MLA Guide
Even more citations and formatting help

Annotated Bibliography

What an APA citation should look like?

An image titled Anatomy of a citation. Below it is a color coded APA citation for a journal article. It is formatted with a hanging indent. The order of pieces is author, year, article title, journal title, volume/issue, and pages.

A red colored slide labeled author. Tips for formatting the author section of the citation are in boxes. Next to them are the sample formatted correctly. The tips include 1. Use only the last name and initials. To the left it says Naraine, M.L. 2. If there are more than one author, always leave them in the order they were listed. That order is significant to the authors. To the right, you see 3 authors listed as Huiszoon, P., Martinent, G., & Bodet, G. There are commas between each author's first initial, and an ampersand before the last author's last name. 3. You need to list all authors if there are 20 or less. If there are more than 20 you get to format it differently. To the left it says List the first 19 authors, then an ellipses and the last author ... Nas, K.

An orange colored slide labeled year. There are 3 tips for formatting the year portion of the citation. 1. Put the year in parentheses with a period afterwards. To the left you see (2019). 2. Use only the year, even if the journal gives you a month or season. To the right, the word Spring is crossed out in front of 2019 3. Use the date published not the date submitted or the date accepted. The peer review process can take a while. Use the correct date. To the left, an image of dates received and accepted are crossed out.

A yellow colored slide titled Article title. Two tips for formatting article titles are given. 1. Only capitalize the first word of the title of the article, and any proper nouns or acronyms. End with a period. 2. Use the whole title, including the subtitle after the colon. Capitalize the first word of the subtitle too. There are two titles written out using these rules.

A green colored slide titled journal title. Three tips for formatting the journal title are listed in boxes. 1. Italicize the entire name of the journal Follow with a comma. To the left you see Sports Marketing Quarterly, in italics. 2. Capitalize all words, except unimportant ones like of, and, an the, etc. To the right you see Journal of Back and Musculoskeletal Rehabilitation (with everything capitalized except of & and.) 3. Use the full title. Some journals abbreviate their title. Google them to figure out the full title. To the left you see a scan of a journal title abbreviated J Can Chiropr Assoc crossed out. Below it is Journal of the Canadian Chiropractic Association.

A blue colored slide titled Volume/issue. Two tips for formatting the volume and issue are in blue boxes. 1. Italicize the volume, but not the issue. Put the issue number in parentheses, and follow it with a comma. If there is no issue number given, just use the volume. To the left you see 28(4), and the 28 is in italics. 2. Finding the volume and issue on a print article might be tricky. Here are few examples of what they might look like. To the right there are images showing the volume and issue being labeled as vol. and nos. or Volume and Number, or simply a number in bold.

A purple colored slide is labeled page numbers. 2 purple boxes have tips to format page numbers. 1. Include the entire page run, and end with a period. To the left you see 222-223. 2. Some online articles don't use pages numbers since they never exist in print. If that's the case, simply put a period after the volume and issue.

How to put a citation together yourself (or improve the one you get from the database)!