One quick thing to remember: If you are writing a bibliography you should include detailed information about all the sources that were used to write your paper/essay, even if you are not citing them in the paper. If, however, you are writing a reference list each source you cite in the paper must appear in your reference list; likewise, each entry in the reference list must be cited in your paper/essay.
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To cite a book in APA format just follow this formula:
Author, A. A. (Year of publication). Title of work in italics with only a capital for the first letter: Capital letter also for subtitle too. Location: Publisher.
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To cite an aritcle or website in APA format just follow this formula (just skip any information you don't have):
Author, A. A., & Author, B. B. (Date of publication). Title of article with only the first letter capitalized. Title of Online Periodical in italics, volume number still in italics(issue number not in italics). Retrieved from http://www.someaddress.com/full/url/
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There are many online tools to help you build your works cited, and these work great!. When using them just be sure of two things: