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OB 510 (Lee) - Organization Behavior

Winter 2024 - Prof. Lee

Creating APA Citations

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. When you use someone else's words or ideas, you should create both an in-text citation within the body of your paper and a references list citation at the end of your paper. 

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: 

Generating Citations from Mardigian Search

You can access auto-generated citations for your reference list from the Mardigian Search results page. Although these auto-generated citations are a great starting point, you should always double check them for accuracy by cross-referencing the citation with the style guide rules. 

Below are step-by-step instructions for generating citations from Mardigian Search: 

From the library homepage, enter your search terms and select "search"

screenshot of library website with arrows pointing to the search bar and search button in Mardigian Search


Once you have located an item you would like to cite, select the quotation mark icon on the right side of the search result.

screenshot of search results page with arrow pointing at the citation button, a quotation marks icon


This will open a pop-up. From the pop-up, select APA from the "Choose a citation format" dropdown menu.

screenshot of pop-up window with citation formatting options


This will display the auto-generated citation. You can then copy and paste the citation into your reference page. screenshot of autogenerated citation

Remember, these are computer generated and may be missing information or have formatting errors! Once you have your citation pasted into your reference list, make sure you double check it for accuracy.  

 

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