Research Guides: PSY 4969 : Critical Thinking About Psychology: Citing & Managing Sources

APA Citation Style Books

Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association by American Psychological Association
Call Number: Pius Reserve BF76.7 .P83 2020

The library has a copies of the APA Publication Manual on reserve at the check-out desk in Pius Library.
The Concise APA Handbook (eBook)
Available as an e-book from SLU Libraries. Explains the basics of APA in simple, easy-to-understand language.

Managing your Citations

Before you start your research choose a citation manager that works best for you! It will help you keep citations to all your articles, sources and data in one place making things much easier when it's time to write your papers. EndNote Desktop software is available for free through ITS, and the more streamlined EndNote Basic is available for free on the web.

EndNote Online
Considering EndNote but not ready for the time commitment of setting up & learning a new software? This free online resource allows you to easily save citations from a variety of databases and link back to the full-text. You can also use the cite while you write feature and import your citations into the EndNote software if you decide you need a more powerful citation manager.
EndNote download
This software is free to all SLU students. You will need to log in to download it. If needed, please contact IT service desk at 314-977-4000 or helpdesk@slu.edu.

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To learn about EndNote, go to EndNote tips, by Donghua Tao, Ph.D.
Zotero
A free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share your research sources. Includes features for inserting citations as you write in both Google Docs and MS Word.