COMMUNICATION RESEARCH WPOnline Spring 2023: Writing & Citing

You must cite your source of information any time you use another person’s ideas, opinion or theory. You must also provide citations for any facts, statistics, graphs, or drawings that are not common knowledge. Quotations of another person's actual spoken or written word and paraphrases of another person's spoken or written words must also be cited.

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• American Psychological Association (APA) Guide to Style, 7th ed.

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• American Psychological Association (APA) Style Tutorials
• APA Formatting and Style Guide (Purdue OWL)

MLA Style - Modern Language Association

• MLA Handout (8th edition) - 2016 (Cheng Library)
• MLA Formatting and Style Guide (Purdue OWL)
• MLA Style Center

ASA Style- American Sociological Association

• ASA Style Handout, 6th edition
• ASA References Page Formatting (Purdue OWL, 5th edition)
• ASA In-Text (Citations) References (Purdue OWL, 5th edition)

Chicago/Turabian Style

• Chicago Manual of Style, 17th edition (Purdue University)
• Turabian Guide - A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations
• Turabian and Chicago Style Guides (University of California - Berkeley)

Purdue University's Online Writing Lab has one of the best websites devoted to academic writing and citing sources. With definitions and examples, visit the site to learn how to create an annotated bibliography.