For this course, you will need to use APA citations. Citing your sources accurately and completely is essential for avoiding plagiarism and allowing others to follow along with your work. There are a number of resources available to help in generating your citations.
The Purdue Owl's APA Style Guide offers lots of examples for both in-text and reference list citation formatting.
When in doubt, you can always check the official APA style guide for proper formatting.
Further information on formatting and citing in APA can be found in the Concise APA Handbook, available through the library as an ebook:
For sources you accessed online, ideally your citations should include a link directly to that resource. However, often the URL you see at the top of your page when you are searching in a database is not a permanent link. That means that when someone tries to use that link in the future, they'll get an error message. When you are saving links to include in your citations, look for a stable or permanent link. Often a database will include a chain link icon where you can generate a permanent link. See examples below:
In the ABI/INFORM complete database, select "all options" and then copy the link that appears next to the chainlink option:
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In Business Source Complete, look for the chainlink icon (labelled "permalink") on the side of your screen:
You can also check if a link is stable by copying the link and pasting into an incognito browser window - if you get an error message, that means the link was not stable.
