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The Research ProcessFinding BooksFinding ArticlesUsing the WWWCiting Sources

The Strategy

Developing Your Topic

Source Examples

Online Resources

Evaluation Criteria

Gathering Sources

You are here Citing Sources

Plagiarism

Citation Styles

There are many ways or "styles" of citing your references. The two most popular style manuals used at Towson University are the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA) and the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. Copies of both books are on Reserve at Cook Library. Below is a citation example from each style manual:

MLA:
Hemingway, Ernest. A Moveable Feast. New York: Scribners, 1964.
APA:
Hemingway, E. (1964). A moveable feast. New York: Scribners.

Cook Library has guides available in paper at the Reference Desk and online from our home page to help you cite your references.


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