Welcome to the Library! For your project, you'll be researching scientific, peer-reviewed studies using library resources to produce a paper. The sources you use for your project need to be cited using the APA style. The goal of this guide is to help you through each step of the process.
Empirical Studies--
Abstracts--
Summaries--
Includes: Biology Database, Canadian Newsstream,Computing Database
Education Database, Global Breaking Newswires,Psychology Database, Religion Database, Research Library, Science Database,
Social Science Database, and
US Newsstream
If you would like the library to get an article for you that is not available full-text in one of our databases, fill out this request form. It will take approximately 7 to 10 days for the library to receive the article, so make sure you allow ample time.
When searching Google Scholar, make sure you choose journal articles, not books or other papers. Most often you will find the abstracts of articles, rather than the full text. You will then need to search our "Journal Title Finder" to see if we have access to the journal that the article originated from. If not, then submit an ILL form to get it from another library.
When we conduct research, we continually engage with other people's ideas and incorporate them into our own research results. It is unlawful to use other people's ideas or writing and state them as your own. Plagiarism is using others' ideas and words without stating the creator of that information.
SOME THINGS TO AVOID:
WHAT YOU SHOULD BE DOING:
Where to get APA Citation examples!
A sample full citation for a bibliography or "Reference" page:
James, E. R., Wen, Y., Overby, J., Pluchino, K., McTighe, S., Matheny, S., Eappen, A., Hoffman, S. L., & Billingsley, P. F. (2022). Cryopreservation of anopheles stephensi embryos. Scientific Reports, 12(1), 43–43. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-04113-x
To use this article as an "in text" citation:
(James and Wen, et. al., 2022)
Log into NoodleBib, an online tool for generating citations in the APA, Chicago, or MLA styles, as well as notecards.
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