View webinars, tutorials, and get concise guidance on APA (7th edition) formatting, in-text citations, references and more from the The Chicago School Online Writing and Learning Center.
This resource offers examples for the general format of APA research papers, in-text citations, endnotes/footnotes, and the reference page.
From the APA's website on APA Style, this page presents concise and easy to navigate style and grammar guidelines
Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (7th edition) by 
The Concise APA Handbook
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A Citation Management Tool is software that helps store, organize, and format citation information. It can generate reference lists, bibliographies, and in-text citations in various styles (e.g., APA, AMA) while you write within your word processing program (i.e. Word, Google Docs, etc ). Most tools also allow you to take notes / tag references, highlight and annotate saved PDFs, assist with annotated bibliographies, research organization, and more.
As with any tool, there are benefits and drawbacks to using citation management tools that you should consider:
Benefits:
Drawbacks:
Download both the standalone software and a browser plugin for free. Use your Chicago School email to get free unlimited storage.
EndNote comes in different versions: EndNote (desktop application, requires a one-time license purchase), EndNote Basic, and EndNote Online. Click here to learn more.
Download the free software to organize, annotate citations and PDFs. NOTE: if you downloaded Office 365 from The Chicago School, you will not be able to download the Word plug-in
Use the browser extension and web app to gather citations from any webpage, organize them, automatically download PDFs, and annotate attached PDFs.
Use the browser extension and web app to gather citations from any webpage, organize them, and annotate attached PDFs.
