For Psychology classes, you will format your research papers and write your citations according to American Psychological Association (APA) rules. For help with using OneSearch to generate APA citations, please read below. For additional help with APA citations, please refer to the LAVC Library's APA Citation Guide.
One advantage of doing your research through the Library website is access to built-in citation tools. OneSearch has the ability to create full citations with the click of a button! To generate a citation for your article, simply click on the blue quotation mark symbol (") located to the right of the article's title (see picture below). OneSearch can generate citations in MLA, APA, and Chicago/Turabian styles.
You can also generate a citation after clicking on an article's title by clicking on the "CITATION" button under "Send to" (see pictures below).
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Heads up: almost every database, even those not included in a OneSearch search, will give you the option to click on a "cite" button and generate an automatic citation in APA format.
Be careful! On rare occasions, OneSearch will make a mistake with their citations. Before you copy/paste any of these citations into your work, make sure to take the time to check them for accuracy.
