The Library has Citation Guides for Your Students!

 

Funky Winkerbean 2/1/12

The PCC Library has created some great citation guides for your students!

We have 5 great guides - two for MLA and two for APA that assist students with the most popular resources. There is also a two page MLA guide for those doing literary criticism papers.

The two page guide for each include: 

• books
• articles
• websites 
• library databases
• information on setting up a "Works Cited" or "Reference" page

The four-page guide for each include:

• books
• articles
• websites 
• library databases 
• DVD
• TV 
• Digital images
• information on setting up a "Works Cited" or "Reference" page
• and additional information about parenthetical citations

The guides can be found on the Library's How to Write a Research Paper (scroll to the bottom) 

If you would like to include a link on your course pages, here are the links (all documents are PDFs)
MLA Style

• Beginner's Guide to MLA (PDF)
• Quick Reference Guide to MLA (PDF)
• Gale Literary Criticism Series citation guide (PDF)

APA Format

• Beginner's Guide to APA (PDF)
• Quick Reference Guide to APA (PDF)

If you have any questions, or would like us to come and talk about citations to your class, just stop by or call us (206-7267).

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