APA: Get Citations While Searching

How to get citations while searching?

Get an automatically generated citation in OneSearch Links to an external site. and many of our databases Links to an external site..

Look for a tools section in databases to email the article, get the permanent links/persistent URLs,  and  retrieve the citation. Sometimes you can email both the material and citation at the same time.

WARNING: Citaions in OneSearch are missing the permalink or DOI.  You will need to include them by copying and pasting a permalink/DOI/stable URL preferably from the database. Use the OneSearch permalink if not available in a database.

 

Double check that entire citation is correct using the APA Quick Guide or jump to the next page.

 

Examples

OneSearch

EBSCO Database

Other pages in this module

APA: Create In-Text Citations

APA: Compose a References Page

APA: Format My Paper

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