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How Things Work: PHYS 0847 Summer 2014

Citation Style Guides on the Web

Style guides from the Temple University Writing Center:

Purdue OWL is another great resource for APA, Chicago, and MLA styles.

Other styles common for the sciences and, specifially, physics are CSE and AIP:

CSE: Council of Science Editors

AIP: American Institute of Physics

 

 

Books on Citation Style

Examples of Citations

APA Online Journal Article

 

Author, A. A., & Author, B. B. (Date of publication). Title of article.Title of Journal, volume number, page range. doi:0000000/000000000000 [or http://dx.doi.org/10.0000/0000]

If the article doesn't have a DOI (digital object identifier), then it will look like this:

Author, A. A., & Author, B. B. (Date of publication). Title of article.Title of Journal, volume number. Retrieved from http://www.journalhomepage.com/full/url/

APA Website

 

Author, A. A., & Author, B. B. (Date of publication). Title of document. Retrieved from http://Web address

More examples of how to cite electronic sources in APA

 

Citation Management

RefWorks logo

RefWorks is a web-based personal database for storing, organizing, formatting, and sharing your citations.

Even though RefWorks and other similar programs will format your citations for you, they're not perfect and you should always double check that everything looks right.