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Citations

Use this Guide to learn how to properly cite your sources in APA and MLA Citation Styles.

Online Encyclopedia or Dictionary/Enclopedia from Library Databases

Author's Last Name, First Initial. Second Initial if Given. (Year of Publication). Title of entry. In Editor's First Initial. Second Initial if given. Last Name

(Ed.), Name of encyclopedia or dictionary (edition if given and is not first edition). Retrieved from Database Name database.

In-text Paraphrase

(Author's Last Name, Year, p. page number or section name and paragraph number)
In-text Quotation

(Author's Last Name, Year)

(The Hutchinson Dictionary of Scientific Biography, 2016).

Citation

Author's Last Name, First Initial. (Year). Edition ( if other than 1). Title of publication. Publisher. Retrieved from URL.

Note: If the item has no author, then the title of the page would begin the entry.

Tesla, Nikola (1856-1943). (2016). In Helicon (Ed.), The Hutchinson dictionary of scientific biography. Abington, UK: Helicon. Retrieved from https://search.credoreference.com/content/topic/tesla_nikola_1856_1943?institutionId=4613