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APA Basics

Examples of the most commonly used APA citation styles--books and journals.

A diagram of how to do a book citation in APA. It starts with the author name, last name first then initial. The year goes next in parenthesis concluded with a period. Next is the title in italics, with only a capital letter at the beginning, and a period at the end. Next is the place of publication followed by a colon, and then the Publisher followed by a period.

 

A diagram of how to do a citation for a journal article in APA, starting with the Author last name first, the year in parenthesis, separated from the article title by a period. The article title is in plain case, and only has capitalization at the beginning of sentences and for proper nouns. It ends with a period. The title of the journal is next in italics, followed by a comma then the volume number in italics, followed by a normal font issue number in parenthesis, then the page numbers followed by a period. The citation concludes with the doi

 

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IEEE Basics

Examples of the most frequently used kinds of bibliographic citations in IEEE: Books, Articles and Reports. For other kinds of papers, electronic sources, or chapters within books, please see the IEEE Online Guide referred to elsewhere on this page.

example of an IEEE citation of a book

example of an IEEE citation of an article

example of an IEEE citation of a Report

IEEE Online

Council of Science Editors - How to Cite a Journal

Example of CSE Citation

Council of Science Editors - How to Cite a Conference Proceeding

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