PSY 4420: Cognitive Psychology: Organize & Cite

APA Style

According to APA style guidelines, you need as much of the following information as you can find about your sources:

• Author and/or editor name(s)
• Title of the source (e.g., website, book, article)
• Title of the larger work (e.g., journal, encyclopedia, magazine, book series)
• Date of publication
• Publication information (volume, issue, and page range for articles; publisher name and location for books)
• Date you accessed the source (if electronic)
• Web address or DOI (Digital Object Identifier)

Citation Organizers - Zotero

Zotero is a way to save the sources you find including journal articles, books and book chapters, images, videos, websites, and more.

Using Zotero you can:

• Save and organize research sources,
• Create in-text citations in Microsoft Word, Google Docs, or LibreOffice,
• Sync your references for online access on any device, and
• Create a bibliography with a single click.

Synthesis

Synthesis requires you to make sense of all the relevant ideas in your sources and blend them together with your own thoughts and ideas. Watch this video to learn how to engage in synthesis in order to take research from multiple sources along with your own arguments and turn it into a research paper.