My professor asked for citation of the book using APA or MLA style to be included in our paper?

Here’s a site that will help you:

http://citationmachine.net/

Look on the left of it and pick which one you want it to be in. Then just type in what it asks. It does it for you so you don’t have to do it.

Hope it helps

They are two different styles for citing sources when you quote them in your paper. MLA=Modern Language Association and APA=American Psychological Association. Both are commonely used at the University level and your local library should have copies. However, I STRONGLY recommend you purchase your own copy and USE it. Example: FOr my Master’s thesis, before it was accepted, EVERY typo and EVERY source reference was checked by my university’s gatekeeper. I would get back comments like: On page 33, line 7, when you cited ____, you stated itincorrectly. Please fix this citation. Also, I would hope that your professor knows BOTH formats intimately, but you might want to ask him/her if they prefer a certain format and/or feel more comfortable with one or the other. I once had a professor who wanted either MLA, Turabian or Chicago formats–but she did not KNOW Turabian or Chicago and thus made a ton of mistakes when correcting papers. Good luck and hope that helps

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APA stands for the American Psychological Association and MLA stands for the Modern Language Association. Both have standards for how the citations and references are written and the format of the entire paper. Here’s a few websites that can help you with that. The first one is a program you can download that does APA for you through a Word document. It’s worth it!

http://www.perrla.com

http://www.mla.org/style

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/

Good luck!

These are different manuals of style for writing and annotating research. This includes footnotes, bibliographies, how to write dates and titles, etc.

APA is the American Psychological Association style, usually reserved for sociological papers.

Link is for in-text citations:

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/02/

MLA is the more common style and you can purchase the handbook for use during the rest of your life, or borrow from the library. Link for in-text citations:

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/557/02/

These should help. He’s asking for the paper to be typed in a specific format and references to other works cited in the paper to also follow the same format.

THe formats dictate margins, fonts, font sizes, etc.

http://www.english.uiuc.edu/cws/wworkshop/writer_resources/citation_styles/mla/mla.htm

http://www.english.uiuc.edu/cws/wworkshop/writer_resources/citation_styles/apa/apa.htm

The best thing to do is find out how to do it. The websites are great but sometimes teachers ask for more than what the websites give you. Also Mango Street is a great book!

http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Citations.html

Great examples of citation usage on both APA and MLA styles.

Good Luck

Go to this website.

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/557/01/

It will tell you everything you need to know about MLA style writing and citations.

If you need APA go to this site.

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/

http://citationmachine.net/

Go there so you don’t screw up the citation!