LibGuides: Healthcare Administration Online Program: APA & Writing Help

Citation Managers, Generators, Styles, and Writing Help

Citation managers help organize and store your sources.

Free Managers:
Zotero (check out the video tutorials in the Library Tutorials tab)
Mendeley
EndNote Basic (free 30 day trial, but after that you need to pay--student pricing available)
Look at this Comparison Table or this Comparison Chart (scroll down a little) comparing the three services

When e-mailing a source from EBSCO to yourself, you can choose which style format to send it.

Note: Use caution when using a citation generator. Always check with your professor if you have any questions about a citation when using a citation generator or for other formatting issues.

KnightCite
Basic and simple citation generator that requires you to put in the resource information in order to get the citation. MLA, APA, and Chicago are available.
RefMe (Now called Citethisforme)
Free citation generator and management system (requires registration). More services are available through a paid subscription. Free accounts can save a bibliography/references for 7 days without requiring payment.
UNC Citation Builder
Build your citation by choosing your source and then your format. Developed at UNC Libraries.
Research O Matic (Free Citation Generator)
Create citations quickly by filling in a form with the information from the resource. Offers APA, MLA, Chicago-Turabian, and more.

Note: Use caution when using a citation generator. Always check with your professor if you have any questions about a citation when using a citation generator or for other formatting issues.

APA Style
Official page of the APA style, includes tutorials and quick answers for references and formatting.
APA Style Blog
The APA Style Blog is the official companion to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, Sixth Edition run by a group of experts who work with APA Style every day.
APA Style Template
This template from Microsoft to download for Word is an APA style template for a paper in APA style and includes examples of running heads, page numbers, headings, tables, figures, and references.
OWL Purdue Writing Lab: APA Formatting and Style Guide
Includes information on how to cite sources using APA style. Includes formatting, in-text citations, footnotes and endnotes.

A Digital Object Identifier is a unique number assigned to an article (not used for books). Not all articles have DOIs. To get DOIs, a publisher has to choose to be a member of one of the DOI registration agencies, a process that requires a membership fee, and not all publishers choose to do this.

If an article has a DOI, it will usually be found on the first page of the article, in the citation, in the EBSCO record for the article, or on the publisher's page for the article. You can type in the title or author of the article in the CrossRef Metadata Search form to see if an article has a DOI (email registration required).

All students have an Online Writing Center available for you to get help with writing and citations. You can register for an account on this page: https://acu.mywconline.net/

The Online Writing Center blog is located here (ACU username & password required): https://blogs.acu.edu/onlinewritingcenter

The Online Writing Center has a self-paced course for APA 7th edition. Self-enroll using this link: https://acuonline.instructure.com/courses/2953