Citation Formats

Usually, a Professor requires citations on a paper to be in either the APA or MLA format. These formats are very different, and they are very exact: periods and commas are very important in each of these formats. If you are not certain of

which format to use, check with your Professor.

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• The rules for the APA format for each type of item being cited are different. In general, the format is:

• Author’s last name, Initial of author’s first name (if available) (date).Title of work (if this is a journal article, followed by the title of the entire work, italicized). For journals, this is followed by the volume number: issue number (date of publication) (If given): page(s); for books, this is followed by the Place of publication, Publisher.

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• If an item is not a standard item (such as a book or journal article) , it will be necessary to consult a style guide, several of which are available on the world wide web. For example, it would be possible to consult a search tool such as google.com, place the subject of apa format and the type of item being cited or simply apa format and obtain many results. Instead, you could use a web site such as easybib.com.

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APA Format 2A

• Please note: formats for electronic items are different from hand-held items!

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MLA Format: 1

• The rules for the MLA format for each type of item being cited are different. In general, the format is:

• Author’s last name, Author’s first name (if available). Title of work (if this is a journal article, the title is in quotation marks, followed by the title of the entire work, underlined). For journals, this is followed by the volume number: issue number (date of publication) (If given): page(s); For books, this is followed by the Place of publication, Publisher: date.

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MLA Format: 2

• If an item is not a standard item (book or journal article), it will be necessary to consult a style guide, several of which are available on the world wide web. For example, it would be possible to consult a search tool such as google.com, place the subject of mla format and the type of item being cited or simply mla format and obtain many results. Instead, you could use a web site such as easybib.com

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MLA Format 2A

• Please note: formats for electronic items are different from hand-held items!

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York College offers tools that may help with formatting citations in the APA and MLA formats: begin on the York College homepage (www.york.cuny.edu)

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After clicking on the Library link in the upper right hand corner of the homepage you will get to the Library homepage:

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APA and MLA Format: 5On the Library homepage, select Tools for Bibliography (in the second column)

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On this page, choose either Noodlebib Express: APA citations OR Noodlebib Express: MLA Citations. Once this screen is revealed, simply follow the directions.