Research, psychology,

science, biology

Entries are listed in

alphabetical order
Title of books and journals should be underlined

Reference page

Last name frst then First name followed by a period

First letter in the title is

capitalized, proper names,
major words in journal or
magazines

Date for article posted and date for retrieve

American
psychology
association

Double space
between
entries

Humanities-essay writing purposes

Use pp. for

page

Citing sources

MLA

APA
Italize book and journal
title of volume # and
punctuation

Page number included

Modern language association

Put the year of
book, article only

Work cited page

Citation used to
avoid plagiarism
Shorten form of publisher name omit book, press, Inc.

Write out the complete name of

publisher include press, book,
Inc.

Summarize or
paraphrase
citation.

All important words are capitalized

Last name frst then

initials of frst name and
middle name

of journals, articles, essays are in quotation marks

Date follow authors

last name and
precede the page
number