Dr. Harris & Dyer’s NURS 4134 Course

Quick Links

Basic Population Information
Health Stats
National Stats
Finding Scholarly Articles
Useful Databases
Class Handouts

Finding Statistical Information

Here is a detailed walk through of the websites we discussed Tuesday in Library Instruction.
If you have any problems working on these sites, use the chat function located in this blog to get help from Reference during library hours.  Also, you can contact Dana in the Government Documents Department (2^nd floor south) either by phone, 974-2904, by email at djackson20@uco.edu, or by stopping by during library hours.

Basic Population Information

www.census.gov

Here is a quick screen cast of where you need to click on the website to find the information you need.  I used the example from today’s class.  http://www.screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cQVIbQnHp (There is no sound.)

1. Select American Fact Finder from the menu on the left.

2. For the most up to date information, I recommend using the American Community Survey. Click on “Get Data.”

3. I recommend using the 2005-2007 Estimates, which is what the survey defaults to. This allows you for populations of 20,000 or more. Use the options on the right side and select “Custom Table.”

4. Begin with the geographic selection. It is a scroll down menu. Once you find the proper geographic area, click “Add,” then “Next.”

5. The next option will be the custom tables for data selection (sex, race, age, etc.). Choose the “by keyword” for specific searching, or the “by subject” option for more guided searching. Once you find the specific request, click “Go.”  If you are not quite sure what is included, highlight the option and click “What is This” for a brief explanation.

6. Once you click go, the options will be broken down for you to add to your table. Place a check mark next to what you want and click “add,” then “next.”

7. Finally, click “Show Result.” This will produce your report. You can then select to either print or download the information for ease in saving.

Health Stats

OK2Share from the Oklahoma Department of Health: www.ok.gov/health

I have provided you another screencast to help you on your way. http://www.screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cQVIbwnHm (using the same example from today).

1. From the above link, go to “Data and Statistics.” In the middle of the next page, you will see the first option, OK2Share. Click “more” underneath the bold title to access the database (will open in a new window.)  Accept the agreement to access the information.

2. The database provides definitions for the available statistics.  Use the left hand menu to select the appropriate statistic need. This will pull up the database section for that specific request. The good thing about this is that there are instructions to help you guide your way.

3. Work your way through the steps in order. If you come to an option where you want to select multiple options, use the “ctrl” key and click each option.

4. As in the video, keep track of the elements for your chart so you can organize the drill down menus to fit your information needs.

5. At the very bottom of your generated report, there are options to save as a PDF, Excel, or Word document for your convenience.

National Stats

Fed Stats: www.fedstats.gov

From the homepage, select “Topic Links-A to Z,” in the upper left section of the menu. This will bring the alphabetical topics page. Select “H”  for health  to select overall health topics, or browse the area for more specific information.

By just clicking on health, you are put into Medline Plus from the US National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health. When you scroll through the front page, you can see the latest releases for a variety of topics (FYI: Health reports for the nightly news originate from this site.).  Utilize the Reference Shelf for a list of statistical organizations.

From the Reference Shelf, you can select the other helpful website, the National Center for Health Statistics (http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/).

(A helpful visual guide (hope they are helpful)): http://www.screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cQVIbRnHH

If you still are not finding what you are looking for, I recommend using USA.Gov (www.usa.gov), a Google type search engine devoted to state and national government websites. Here you will have a better chance to find more reliable information.

Finding Scholarly Articles

Scholarly articles are written for readers who have advanced knowledge of their subject area. They often contain empirical research, are longer, and have a Works Cited list at the end.  Most databases have limiters on the main search page that restrict the search to scholarly articles.

• Use truncation where appropriate:  african american*
• Scan subject in a search and click to add them to the search  if appropriate.   Need more assistance?  Watch this video

Useful Databases for this project:

CINAHL — (Recommended) Comprehensive database for nursing & allied health

HealthSource Nursing/Academic — Many full text articles on all aspects of health

Medline — Comprehensive in-depth coverage of materials on all aspects of medicine. Directed to physicians more than nurses or allied health fields.

Tip: Use Medline for more clinical information about a condition.

Other Databases to Consider:

Other databases may have information related to community health, including these databases:

PsycInfo — Comprehensive database for psychology materials

Tip: Consider checking PsycInfo for information about mental conditions or conditions where mental issues might be a factor, such as post-partum depression.

SocIndex — Comprehensive database for the social sciences

Tip: Consider checking SocIndex when ethnic, economic, or age is a factor in a condition or treatment.

Class Handouts:

The Basics library guide — Consult to review searching techniques, locations, call numbers, etc.

APA Style Guide – Consult this guide for correct information on citing sources

Okay, well that’s about that. Remember, if you have any questions, you can always contact us at the Reference desk via email, phone (405-974-2878), chat, or text!

See you around the library!

Dana & Amanda

Prof. Tourelle’s NURS 4153 Class–

Quick links:
Scholarly versus Popular
Database Searching
Database Searching Tips
CINAHL Subject Headings
Interlibrary Loan
Class PowerPoint
Citation Help

Scholarly/academic literature versus popular literature

First, just a simple tip: scholarly/academic/peer-reviewed/referred all mean the same thing.

According to our library glossary, peer-reviewed means “articles reviewed and critiqued by noted experts (”peers”) in the same discipline; sometimes called ‘refereed’”library.uco.edu/sp/glossary/index.html

Thus when you’re taking a look at an article from Time or Scientific American, you’re not looking at scholarly articles. Instead, you’re looking at something called “popular literature” or news that is written for the general public about scholarly and or scientific studies, etc.

In short–

Peer-reviewed

• Written by a scholar or a researcher
• Written for academia
• Full documentation
• Original or primary research

Popular

• Written for general public
• Written by reporters or free-lance writers
• No or minimal documentation
• No original research- secondary literature

Database Searching

When you are in need of an scholarly source or even a popular source, you can turn to our library databases (which can be accessed on and off campus with your UCO email username and password).

The Library databases can be found at http://library.uco.edu/databases/

Once on the library databases’ page, you can sort the databases by subject using the upper left-hand corner drop-down box.

Thus, if you were looking for articles about a certain physical condition, you might choose Nursing or Health and Medicine.

If you were searching for mental conditions, you might choose Psychology as your subject…

Searching tips in our databases

Some cool things you can do to make your search more specific or to yield more results is to use advanced search operators.

One such operator is OR

OR will increase the number of results retrieved because it is looking for similar terms.

Thus, if you’re searching for steroids, you’re also searching for performance enhancing drugs, etc.

” “ will only search for words right next to each other.

It’s called a phrase search. If you want to do a search on performance enhancing drugs, you might want to put ” ” around the phrase like so “performance enhancing drugs”.

Otherwise the database will just look for those words separately; not necessarily next to each other.

Yet another trick is the * ending.

This is called the truncation or wildcard ending. Adding a * to a word like athlet* will search for the following words: athlete, athletes, athletics, atheletic, athletism, etc., etc.

CINAHL Subject Headings or MESH (Medical Subject Headings)

In class we looked at the following example from the University of Nebraska Medical Center’s Searching CINAHL with Subject Headings handout (http://www.unmc.edu/library/guides/CINAHLHeadings.pdf):

Example: JD is a 55 year old male who is recovering from a spinal injury. He is currently immobilized and will be for several months. You have been asked to locate information on positioning an immobilized patient to prevent pressure ulcers.

We determined that our key terms or phrases for this example would be

1. positioning
2. pressure ulcers

Now, using our database tips above, we could do a keyword search in CINAHL but if we want to retrieve more relevant results we would turn to the CINAHL Subject Headings. Subject headings are controlled vocabulary. We use them in our library catalog (Library of Congress Subject Headings), we use them when we visit a clothing website such as JCrew.com or LandsEnd.com We follow that site’s controlled vocabulary or the terms and phrases that site has chosen to classify their contents.

For a quick tutorial video on why you might choose a subject heading search over a keyword search and how to set up such a search in CINAHL, please click on this link: http://www.screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cQnllFnSy

What if we don’t own a certain book, cd, dvd, article?

Interlibrary Loan

When you need a book or article that Chambers Library doesn’t own, Interlibrary Loan can usually borrow it for you from another library.

Two things to remember about Interlibrary Loan

1.) Allow 7 days!

2.) It’s free

To search for books, cds, dvds, etc. use WorldCat (http://library.uco.edu/cats/) then look for the “Interlibrary Loan” link in the section “External Resources” on your item’s record page.

For articles, usually when you pull up a result in the library’s databases that we don’t have access to, an ILL link will appear on the “Find It” button’s page. If not, please contact us at the Reference desk for assistance.

You can always fill out an ILL form online by first logging in athttp://eres.uco.edu/illiad/logon.html then choosing the appropriate form (”request a photocopy” or “request a book or visual material”).

My PowerPoint Shown in Class

Click on the following:

Using The Library For Nurs 4153

APA Citation Help

APA Style Guide – Consult our library guide for correct information on citing sources (http://library.ucok.edu/instruction/APA5th.pdf).

OWL (Online Writing Lab at Purdue) – Offers examples of citing sources using APA (http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/)

APA Website Gives updated information not included in the latest APA print manual (http://apastyle.apa.org/)

Knight Cite (http://www.calvin.edu/library/knightcite/) and Son of Citation Machine (http://citationmachine.net/)

Remember when using the automatic citation in EBSCOHost– Always check your results with the APA manual!!

Please remember that if you ever need a hand in with research, you can always contact us at the Reference desk via email, phone (405-974-2878), chat, or text! You can even comment on this blog’s posting and we’ll get back to you!

And, you can always email me personally @ alemon2@uco.edu!

I’ll see you around the library!

Amanda

Dr. Arnold’s NURS 1221- Intro to Nursing

Assignment Parts:
Finding Popular and Scholarly Articles
Finding Biographical Information

Quick links:
Scholarly versus Popular
Database Searching
Searching for Biographical Information
Database Searching Tips
Helpful Resources for Citing Sources

Videos

Part 1

Part 2

Assignment Part 1:

Find a scholarly and popular article on a medical condition and critique them.

Scholarly literature versus popular literature

First, just a simple tip: scholarly/academic/peer-reviewed/referred all mean the same thing.

According to our library glossary, peer-reviewed means “articles reviewed and critiqued by noted experts (”peers”) in the same discipline; sometimes called ‘refereed’”library.uco.edu/sp/glossary/index.html

Thus when you’re taking a look at an article from Time or Scientific American, you’re not looking at scholarly articles. Instead, you’re looking at something called “popular literature” or news that is written for the general public about scholarly and or scientific studies, etc.

In short–

Peer-reviewed

• Written by a scholar or a researcher
• Written for academia
• Full documentation
• Original or primary research

Popular

• Written for general public
• Written by reporters or free-lance writers
• No or minimal documentation
• No original research- secondary literature

        

Searching in our databases for articles & biographical information

When you are in need of an scholarly source or even a popular source, you can turn to our library databases (which can be accessed on an off campus with your UCO email username and password).

The Library databases can be found at http://library.uco.edu/databases/

Once on the library databases’ page, you can sort the databases by subject using the upper left-hand corner drop-down box.

Thus, if you were looking for articles about a certain medical condition, you might choose Nursing or Health and Medicine. If you were searching for mental conditions, you might choose Psychology as your subject…

Assignment Part 2:

Find a biography about a nurse.

Searching for biographical information 

One way is to visit our homepage and click, once again, on the far left hand side link entitled “Find Articles (Databases). From here, click on the drop-down box in the upper left hand corner (called “Databases by Subject” and select “Biography”.

Biography Reference Bank

Description: Biography Reference Bank contains more than 95,000 short biographies and obituaries and 26,000 photographs from more than 100 volumes of biographical reference books.

Biography Master Index

Description: Citations for biographical information on more than 5 million people. Indexes articles, books, and autobiographies for graphical subjects from antiquity to the present. Includes individual and collective biographies from all fields and nationalities.

Also, you can use the UCO Library Catalog to find books over your nursing figure. Just visit the library website and click on Find Books (Catalogs) and do a keyword search or drop the drop-down box on the far right hand side to “Subject Heading” and enter your figure’s name (last name, first)

ex.: Barton, Clara

Searching tips in our databases

Some cool things you can do to make your search more specific or to yield more results is to use advanced search operators.

One such operator is OR

OR will increase the number of results retrieved because it is looking for similar terms.

Thus, if you’re searching for steroids, you’re also searching for performance enhancing drugs, etc.

” “ will only search for words right next to each other. It’s called a phrase search.

If you want to do a search on performance enhancing drugs, you might want to put ” ” around the phrase like so “performance enhancing drugs”. Otherwise the database will just look for those words separately; not necessarily next to each other.

Yet another trick is the * ending. This is called the truncation or wildcard ending.

Adding a * to a word like athlet* will search for the following words: athlete, athletes, athletics, atheletic, athletism, etc., etc.

Helpful Resources for Citing Sources

OWL (Online Writing Lab at Purdue) – Offers examples of citing sources and other helpful information for writing academic papers.

APA Website Gives updated information on citing electronic references not included in the APA Manual.

Knight Cite and Son of Citation Machine are just two examples of web sources you can use to help format your reference or bibliography page. These should be used only as a guide as they may not be 100% accurate. Always check results with the APA manual.

The Reference Desk has a copy of the APA manual that you may use in the library. The circulation desk also has a limited number of copies that can be check out for limited periods of time.

Please remember that if you ever need a hand in with research, you can always contact us at the Reference desk via email, phone (405-974-2878), chat, or text!

And, you can always email me personally @ alemon2@uco.edu!

I’ll see you around the library!

Amanda

Prof. Tourelle’s NURS 4153 Class

Quick links:
Scholarly versus Popular
Database Searching
Database Searching Tips
CINAHL Subject Headings
Interlibrary Loan
Class PowerPoint
Citation Help

Scholarly/academic literature versus popular literature

First, just a simple tip: scholarly/academic/peer-reviewed/referred all mean the same thing.

According to our library glossary, peer-reviewed means “articles reviewed and critiqued by noted experts (”peers”) in the same discipline; sometimes called ‘refereed’”library.uco.edu/sp/glossary/index.html

Thus when you’re taking a look at an article from Time or Scientific American, you’re not looking at scholarly articles. Instead, you’re looking at something called “popular literature” or news that is written for the general public about scholarly and or scientific studies, etc.

In short–

Peer-reviewed

• Written by a scholar or a researcher
• Written for academia
• Full documentation
• Original or primary research

Popular

• Written for general public
• Written by reporters or free-lance writers
• No or minimal documentation
• No original research- secondary literature

Searching in our databases for articles

When you are in need of an scholarly source or even a popular source, you can turn to our library databases (which can be accessed on and off campus with your UCO email username and password).

The Library databases can be found at http://library.uco.edu/databases/

Once on the library databases’ page, you can sort the databases by subject using the upper left-hand corner drop-down box.

Thus, if you were looking for articles about a certain physical condition, you might choose Nursing or Health and Medicine.

If you were searching for mental conditions, you might choose Psychology as your subject…

Searching tips in our databases

Some cool things you can do to make your search more specific or to yield more results is to use advanced search operators.

One such operator is OR

OR will increase the number of results retrieved because it is looking for similar terms.

Thus, if you’re searching for steroids, you’re also searching for performance enhancing drugs, etc.

” “ will only search for words right next to each other.

It’s called a phrase search. If you want to do a search on performance enhancing drugs, you might want to put ” ” around the phrase like so “performance enhancing drugs”.

Otherwise the database will just look for those words separately; not necessarily next to each other.

Yet another trick is the * ending.

This is called the truncation or wildcard ending. Adding a * to a word like athlet* will search for the following words: athlete, athletes, athletics, atheletic, athletism, etc., etc.

CINAHL Subject Headings or MESH (Medical Subject Headings)

In class we looked at the following example from the University of Nebraska Medical Center’s Searching CINAHL with Subject Headings handout (http://www.unmc.edu/library/guides/CINAHLHeadings.pdf):

Example: JD is a 55 year old male who is recovering from a spinal injury. He is currently immobilized and will be for several months. You have been asked to locate information on positioning an immobilized patient to prevent pressure ulcers.

We determined that our key terms or phrases for this example would be

1. positioning
2. pressure ulcers

Now, using our database tips above, we could do a keyword search in CINAHL but if we want to retrieve more relevant results we would turn to the CINAHL Subject Headings. Subject headings are controlled vocabulary. We use them in our library catalog (Library of Congress Subject Headings), we use them when we visit a clothing website such as JCrew.com or LandsEnd.com We follow that site’s controlled vocabulary or the terms and phrases that site has chosen to classify their contents.

For a quick tutorial video on why you might choose a subject heading search over a keyword search and how to set up such a search in CINAHL, please click on this link: http://www.screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cQnllFnSy

What if we don’t own a certain book, cd, dvd, article?

Interlibrary Loan

When you need a book or article that Chambers Library doesn’t own, Interlibrary Loan can usually borrow it for you from another library.

Two things to remember about Interlibrary Loan

1.) Allow 7 days!

2.) It’s free

To search for books, cds, dvds, etc. use WorldCat (http://library.uco.edu/cats/) then look for the “Interlibrary Loan” link in the section “External Resources” on your item’s record page.

For articles, usually when you pull up a result in the library’s databases that we don’t have access to, an ILL link will appear on the “Find It” button’s page. If not, please contact us at the Reference desk for assistance.

You can always fill out an ILL form online by first logging in athttp://eres.uco.edu/illiad/logon.html then choosing the appropriate form (”request a photocopy” or “request a book or visual material”).

My PowerPoint Shown in Class

APA Citation Help

APA Style Guide – Consult our library guide for correct information on citing sources (http://library.ucok.edu/instruction/APA5th.pdf).

OWL (Online Writing Lab at Purdue) - Offers examples of citing sources using APA (http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/)

APA Website Gives updated information not included in the latest APA print manual (http://apastyle.apa.org/)

Knight Cite (http://www.calvin.edu/library/knightcite/) and Son of Citation Machine (http://citationmachine.net/) 

Remember when using the automatic citation in EBSCOHost– Always check your results with the APA manual!!

Please remember that if you ever need a hand in with research, you can always contact us at the Reference desk via email, phone (405-974-2878), chat, or text! You can even comment on this blog’s posting and we’ll get back to you!

And, you can always email me personally @ alemon2@uco.edu!

I’ll see you around the library!

Amanda

Prof. Vessier’s NURS Class

Quick links:
Scholarly versus Popular
Database Searching
Database Searching Tips
Interlibrary Loan 

Scholarly/academic literature versus popular literature

First, just a simple tip: scholarly/academic/peer-reviewed/referred all mean the same thing.

According to our library glossary, peer-reviewed means “articles reviewed and critiqued by noted experts (”peers”) in the same discipline; sometimes called ‘refereed’”library.uco.edu/sp/glossary/index.html

Thus when you’re taking a look at an article from Time or Scientific American, you’re not looking at scholarly articles. Instead, you’re looking at something called “popular literature” or news that is written for the general public about scholarly and or scientific studies, etc.

In short–

Peer-reviewed

• Written by a scholar or a researcher
• Written for academia
• Full documentation
• Original or primary research

Popular

• Written for general public
• Written by reporters or free-lance writers
• No or minimal documentation
• No original research- secondary literature

   

Searching in our databases for articles 

When you are in need of an scholarly source or even a popular source, you can turn to our library databases (which can be accessed on and off campus with your UCO email username and password).

The Library databases can be found at http://library.uco.edu/databases/

Once on the library databases’ page, you can sort the databases by subject using the upper left-hand corner drop-down box.

Thus, if you were looking for articles about a certain physical condition, you might choose Nursing or Health and Medicine.

If you were searching for mental conditions, you might choose Psychology as your subject…

Searching tips in our databases

Some cool things you can do to make your search more specific or to yield more results is to use advanced search operators.

One such operator is OR

OR will increase the number of results retrieved because it is looking for similar terms.

Thus, if you’re searching for steroids, you’re also searching for performance enhancing drugs, etc.

” “ will only search for words right next to each other.

It’s called a phrase search.  If you want to do a search on performance enhancing drugs, you might want to put ” ” around the phrase like so “performance enhancing drugs”.

Otherwise the database will just look for those words separately; not necessarily next to each other.

Yet another trick is the * ending.  

This is called the truncation or wildcard ending.  Adding a * to a word like athlet* will search for the following words: athlete, athletes, athletics, atheletic, athletism, etc., etc.

What if we don’t own a certain book, cd, dvd, article?

Interlibrary Loan 

When you need a book or article that Chambers Library doesn’t own, Interlibrary Loan can usually borrow it for you from another library.

Two things to remember about Interlibrary Loan

1.)    Allow 7 days!

2.)    It’s free

To search for books, cds, dvds, etc. use WorldCat (http://library.uco.edu/cats/) then look for the “Interlibrary Loan” link in the section “External Resources” on your item’s record page.

For articles, usually when you pull up a result in the library’s databases that we don’t have access to, an ILL link will appear on the “Find It” button’s page.  If not, please contact us at the Reference desk for assistance. 

You can always fill out an ILL form online by first logging in athttp://eres.uco.edu/illiad/logon.html then choosing the appropriate form (”request a photocopy” or “request a book or visual material”).

Please remember that if you ever need a hand in with research, you can always contact us at the Reference desk via email, phone (405-974-2878), chat, or text!

And, you can always email me personally @ alemon2@uco.edu!

I’ll see you around the library!

Amanda

Dr. Steele’s NURS 1221 Course

Quick links:
Scholarly versus Popular
Database Searching
Database Searching Tips
Evaluating Websites

Scholarly/academic literature versus popular literature

First, just a simple tip: scholarly/academic/peer-reviewed/referred all mean the same thing.

According to our library glossary, peer-reviewed means “articles reviewed and critiqued by noted experts (”peers”) in the same discipline; sometimes called ‘refereed’”library.uco.edu/sp/glossary/index.html

Thus when you’re taking a look at an article from Time or Scientific American, you’re not looking at scholarly articles.  Instead, you’re looking at something called “popular literature” or news that is written for the general public about scholarly and or scientific studies, etc.

In short–

Peer-reviewed

• Written by a scholar or a researcher
• Written for academia
• Full documentation
• Original or primary research

Popular

• Written for general public
• Written by reporters or free-lance writers
• No or minimal documentation
• No original research- secondary literature

Searching in our databases for articles and biographical information

When you are in need of an scholarly source or even a popular source, you can turn to our library databases (which can be accessed on an off campus with your UCO email username and password).

The Library databases can be found at http://library.uco.edu/databases/

Once on the library databases’ page, you can sort the databases by subject using the upper left-hand corner drop-down box.

Thus, if you were looking for articles about a certain physical condition, you might choose Nursing or Health and Medicine.  If you were searching for mental conditions, you might choose Psychology as your subject… And, if you were researching a Nursing or Medical figure, you might choose Biography as your subject sorter for our biographical databases.

Searching tips in our databases

Some cool things you can do to make your search more specific or to yield more results is to use advanced search operators.

One such operator is OR

OR will increase the number of results retrieved because it is looking for similar terms.

Thus, if you’re searching for steroids, you’re also searching for performance enhancing drugs, etc.

” “ will only search for words right next to each other.  It’s called a phrase search.

If you want to do a search on performance enhancing drugs, you might want to put ” ” around the phrase like so “performance enhancing drugs”.  Otherwise the database will just look for those words separately; not necessarily next to each other.

Yet another trick is the * ending.  This is called the truncation or wildcard ending.

Adding a * to a word like athlet* will search for the following words: athlete, athletes, athletics, atheletic, athletism, etc., etc.

Evaluating websites

Google ain’t all bad and neither is the Internet

You just need to be weary of who is behind your information.

Would you trust a .com for medical advice? A website backed by a racist white supremest group for a biographical sketch of Martin Luther King?

When using Internet sources,

Look to the authority of the page’s author (Who is writing the content, what are their credentials?)

The accuracy of the content being provided (How did they procure their results? etc.)

The objectivity of the content itself

And, finally, the currency (How old is the research?)

For more help, see this website evaluation page put together by the Libraries at the University of Idaho.

Please remember that if you ever need a hand in with research, you can always contact us at the Reference desk via email, phone (405-974-2878), chat, or text!

And, you can always email me personally @ alemon2@uco.edu!

I’ll see you around the library!

Amanda

NURS1221 – Introduction to Nursing – Steele

Hello nursing students, Thank you for attending the annoted version of a library instruction class! I hope you found the information useful. Below I have posted additional information as promised.

Tonya L Holt
Reference & Instruction Librarian

Learn more about using UCO Library ResourcesUCO Chambers Library Tutorial This free online tutorial covers information sources, searching strategies, how to find books, how to find articles and citations and plagariasm. If you are interested in learning more, you can use this tutorial at your own pace.APA Style

APA Handout This is copy of the handout given in class.

The OWL at Purdue (Online Writing Lab) This website offers more examples of writing and citing in APA style.

KnightCite This website will help you format your reference page. Be sure to select APA style on the left side. May not be 100% accurate. Always check your APA manual.

Son of Citation Machine This is another website to help you format your reference page. Again, be sure to select APA style on the left side. May not be 100% accurate. Always check your APA manual.