For additional citation styles, such as MLA, or Chicago, see our Citing Sources Guide.
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Here are some resources to help you get started with APA.
Before you start your research, it is important for you and your team to determine how you will keep track of the resources you find and how you will manage your citations. A citation manager is a great way to collect and organize your citations. Here are a few of the citation managers that your team may choose to use:
Some web sites allow users to enter the citation information (author, title, journal, volume, etc.) and will create a citation for you on the fly which you can copy and paste into your bibliography. Always double-check citations from citation generators. Sometimes, they make errors in formatting citations, and you may have to do some manual edits.