APA style was created by the American Psychological Association for use by professionals and students preparing papers in psychology, nursing, social work, communications, education, business, and engineering among others.
Why use APA style? So that those in the discipline listed above have consistency in their exploration of information in their fields of study being able to scan quickly for key points and sources. Understanding APA Style will also help students further explore information and resources in their research.
Papers written in APA style should be double spaced. The page with the citations should start a new page and be labeled "References", any citations longer than one line should be double spaced, and for any citations longer than one line, use hanging indents on the second and all subsequent lines of the citation. If appendices are includes they will follow the References pages.
Also see APA Inclusive Language Guidelines.
The citations in this guide are general citations from the 7th edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association shown below. For more information and more details on the formatting, writing, and citing of papers see the links below. And remember you can always ask a librarian!
For all other types of sources including reports and gray literature, Conference presentations and proceedings, dissertations and theses, and more, including intext citations see the resources and links below.
For legal citations guidance beyond the APA Publication Manual visit the Legal Information Institute at Cornell Law School at https://www.law.cornell.edu/ and https://www.law.cornell.edu/citation/
MLA style was created by the Modern Language Association for use by writers and students preparing papers for English Studies, Foreign Language studies, other literary studies, as well as cultural studies.
Why use MLA Style? So that those in the discipline listed above have consistency in their exploration of information in their fields of study being able to scan quickly for key points and sources. Understand MLA Style will also help students further explore information and resources in their research.
Papers written in MLA style should be double spaced. Any notes to be included at the end of the paper should be in a section labeled "Notes" on its own page after the text of the paper but before the works cited page. The page with the citations should start a new page and be labeled "Works Cited", any citations longer than one line should be double spaced, for any citations longer than one line, use hanging indents on the second and all subsequent lines of the citation.
The citations in this guide are general citations from the 8th edition of the MLA handbook shown below. For more information and more details on the formatting, writing, and citing of papers see the links below. And remember you can always ask a librarian!
Morrison, Toni. Beloved. Alfred A. Knopf, 1987.
This example shows first the author, last name first, then title of the book in italics, followed by the publisher and the year published.
(Citation found on page 236 of MLA Handbook ninth edition.)
Parenthetical citation: (Morison 35)
Narrative citation: As Morrison writes in Beloved, "Places, places are still there. If a house burns down, it's gone, but the place-the picture of it-stays" (35).
For further examples and examples of different types of books follow the links below.
(These examples can be found in The Chicago Manual of Style page 854).
For all other types of sources including published broadcasted interviews, audio visual materials, ancient or sacred or classical or medieval sources, legal and more see the texts and resources below.