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ProQuest Research Companion

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ProQuest Research Companion is a new, intuitive and self-guided product that effortlessly guides students through the research process, helping them develop their critical thinking skills to more effectively find, evaluate and use information. Created by writing instructors and librarians, it supports information literacy instruction and practical application through tools and learning videos.

Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association : The official guide to APA style by American Psychological Association
Call Number: BF 76.7 P83 2020
ISBN: 9781433832161
Publication Date: 2020
Chapters of particular interest are chapters 8-10 that deal with in text citations, creating a reference list and examples of references.

APA Style Guidelines Overview
Poster presentation overview of APA Style Guidelines prepared by Purdue University OWL Writing Lab.
Student Paper Checklist (APA Style)

APA Style: Style and Grammar Guidelines
7th ed.
APA Style 7th Edition Reference Guide for Journal Articles, Books and Edited Book Chapters.
APA Style: In-Text Citations
APA 7th edition video (Florida Gateway College)
This 14 minute video provides a quick overview of the 7th edition of APA and key practices for writing a paper using APA citation style.
Changes in the 7th edition
Prepared by the Purdue Online Writing Lab (Purdue University).
APA Interactive (7thed.)
Select the type of resource and then check out what the pattern would be for it.
APA 7th Edition Guide (Fanshawe College)
Provides an overview of formatting a paper, in text citations and a reference list.
Basic in-text citation style format by author type
Put together by the College of St. Scholastica Library, Minnesota.

The Copyright library guide contains information and links on copyright and fair dealing.

To learn more about plagiarism, consult the library website.

Price, B. (2014). Avoiding plagiarism: guidance for nursing students. Nursing Standard, 28(26), 45-51.

Booth, Y. (1996). Writing an academic essay: a practical guide for nurses. British Journal Of Nursing (Mark Allen Publishing), 5(16), 995-999.

APA Format template (7th ed.) - Word 365
Template comes from the National American University Online Library. https://national.libguides.com/apa_7th/template_sample_paper
*Old Style!* APA Format template (6th ed.) - Word 2016
Download template to create a document in MS Word that conforms to APA style, 6th Edition.

Below are links to documents on APA formatting rules and a sample paper that highlights formatting.

Students in the Nursing program at VCC use the APA Citation style for their research papers. Here are some helpful guides to APA:

The American Psychological Association offers a free basic tutorial as well as an APA Blog Style giving citation help:

Nontraditional Sources: Secondary Sources
A short 2 minute video from Walden University Writing Center that shows how to cite within a paper a secondary source as well as in a Reference list.
APA Style Secondary Sources

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How well do you know plagiarism? ( Writecheck)
10 questions testing your knowledge of plagiarism.
Paraphrasing ( Eastern Institute of Technology, NZ)
Quick quiz that tests your knowledge on plagiarism through descriptive scenarios. Prepared by Library and Learning Services, Eastern Institute of Technology.
APA Style: Paraphrasing
Quiz: Plagiarism (University Of Guelph. Academic Integrity))
Ten thought provoking questions that address the subtleties of plagiarism.

To get an overview on plagiarism, watch this VCC library streaming video:

APA Tutorial : Test Your Knowledge (University of Southern Mississippi University Libraries)
Quick multiple choice questionnaire with the correct answers once you submit the completed quiz..
General APA Exercise (APA Style 7th ed.)
Prepared by Royal Roads University. There are ten questions in this quiz that test your basic knowledge of the 7th ed. Correct responses are provided once you have submitted your answers.
In-text citations (APA Style 7th ed.)
Quiz developed by Royal Roads University with the correct answers provided after each response submission..
Matching a reference to resource type (APA Style 7th ed.)
Prepared by Royal Roads University.
Excelsior Online Writing Lab : APA Activity
APA 7th Referencing: Quiz
Quiz is available through the library at Victoria University (Melbourne, Australia).

VCC Library's Guide to Zotero
This guide will introduce you to Zotero, a free software for organizing your research and creating citations and reference lists.