Center for Academic and Accessibility Resources

APA Electronic Resources

The following links are to better assist you in writing American Psychological Association style. Many undergraduate programs accept various style guides for writing, our School of Educaiton and School of Buisiness strictly accept and expect APA style.


Citing Electronic Documents
Electronic Reference Formats Recommended by APA

This is straight from APA, and very good, it can be confusing. It gives good examples that show how to site Web sites, databases, e-mail messages --everything except books.

Other help with APA
Introduction to APA Style: Top 10 Headaches

Jeff Zuckerman's APA Powerpoint presentation. Please view it on-line but do not download it, it is proprietary and copywrited. We have received permission to use it. If you would like to download it please contact Zuckerman for permission to download or print.

APA Style Manual Changes from 4th to 5th Editions

Jill Eastwood, an editorial consultant, has compiled a comprehensive list in .pdf format showing the changes from the 4th to 5th editions of the APA Manual.

A Guide for Writing Research Papers

From Capitol Community College, it is good for very basic questions for APA. There are easy to use hyperlinks in question/anser format.


APA-Related Software
APA Style Helper

A software guide to using APA style in manuscripts is available from the American Psychological Association and can be downloaded for about $40. You can try the free demo and see if this is something that will put dissertation editors out of business.

Reference Point Software at http://www.charm.net/~rps/

Excellent resource for templates to use.

Reference Manager and ProCite at http://www.procite.com