Feb 9, 2012 70°F/21°C
Quick Links

CES > Academic Programs > Graduate > Grad POWER > Style Guides Education

Skip to Search
APA Documentation
Public Documents &
Legal Citation
Documentation Software
Research Links

Style Guides

All of your professors in the College of Educational Studies will require you to use the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 5th edition; however, be sure to refer to your syllabus to determine your professor’s preferred style. The following list features online style guides, documentation software, and relevant research resources.

APA documentation, 5th edition
Documentation software
Research links

APA DOCUMENTATION, 5TH EDITION

Research and Documentation Online: Social Sciences—Diana Hacker
Diana Hacker, whose handbook on writing is widely used, includes instructions on APA format for intext citations, the list of references, and manuscript format, with a model paper as well.

Using APA Format, 5th Edition—Purdue University OWL
Purdue's OWL provides a very helpful step-by-step tutorial on preparing papers conforming to all APA guidelines.

APA Style, 5th Edition: Electronic References—American Psychological Association
The American Psychological Association provides a useful guide for electronic citations in APA that you can trust to be complete.

APA Format Guide, University of Wisconsin, Madison
The Writing Center at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, here provides a very user-friendly guide to APA and generously acknowledges other resources online for mastering APA format.

American Psychological Association. (2001). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association. (5th ed.). Washington: American. Psychological Association.
Li, Xia and Nancy B. Crane. (1996). Electronic styles: A Handbook for Citing Electronic Information. (2d ed.). Medford, NJ: Information Today.

DOCUMENTATION SOFTWARE

Bibliographic software applications allow you to organize information and format reference information into footnotes, endnotes, and bibliographies in different styles. In providing this information about using EndNote, the Graduate Project on Writing and Educational Research neither recommends nor endorses its use and does not make any claims or promises about its effectiveness and performance.

Zotero
Zotero is a free 2.0 Firefox extension whose functionality allows writers to import references from online databases, organize references and create bibliographies.

EndNote
EndNote software is essentially a citation management software program that allows you to import references from online databases and keep personalized databases; organize references; and create bibliographies. A portal for accessing EndNote is available through the Leatherby Libraries for graduate students enrolled in Chapman’s College of Educational Studies.

EndNote V9 User Manual
For those new to EndNote, you'll find here a step-by-step manual to demystify its use.

NoodleBib
“Generate, edit, and publish an MLA Works Cited list or APA References list that complies with the rules of the current MLA Handbook and APA Publication Manual. NoodleBib takes care of punctuation, alphabetization and formatting, producing a polished source list for import into Word.”

ProCite
ProCite is a software that allows writers to create bibliographies from Internet sources. A free 30-day full trial version is available.

RESEARCH LINKS

Research, Writing, and the Formation of the Public Intellectual
Recent research into graduate writing and the role of graduate writing centers in supporting doctoral students can be viewed at the following site:
Reconceiving the PhD in Education: Research, Writing, and the Formation of the Public Intellectual.

Leatherby Libraries: In addition to all the fine books and multi-media resources available, you’ll also find a large selection of relevant databases in Education.

We wish to acknowledge the exemplars we considered in structuring this site, including those websites from the UCLA Graduate Student Resource Center, the University of Texas at Austin LBJ School of Public Affairs Graduate Writing Center, Pepperdine University’s Graduate Writing Center, and Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education and Psychology.