Citing Sources: ASA
American Sociological Association Style Guide by Call Number: Ready Reference HM73 .A547 2010ISBN: 0912764317Publication Date: 2010
Style Guides
MLA Handbook by Call Number: Ready Reference LB2369 .M53 2016ISBN: 9781603292627Publication Date: 2016-04-01
Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association by Call Number: REady Reference BF76.7 .P83 2020ISBN: 9781433832154Publication Date: 2019-10-01
A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations, Ninth Edition by Call Number: Ready Reference LB2369 .T8 2018ISBN: 9780226494425Publication Date: 2018-04-16
Online Citation Help
While going directly to the style guide is the best way to ensure accuracy in your citations, here are some online sources to serve as a quick examples for the basics.
Additional Resources for ASA
Purdue OWL: Formatting in ASA - references and in-text citation help
American Sociological Association - quick tips for ASA style as a pdf
RefWorks
RefWorks
ProQuest RefWorks is a tool that helps you handle all your citations. It's particularly useful for this assignment because not only does it manage your citations for a bibliography, but you can share a folder with the rest of your group. The link below takes you through all of the basics of how to utilize RefWorks.
More specifically, RefWorks allows you to:
If you are using a lot of web sources, rather than pulling from a database, you may also want to use the browser plugin "Save to RefWorks" to generate citations from the web. You can find it under the Tools option in RefWorks.
Writing Center
For writing assistance, stop by the University Writing Center, located on the second floor of the Guerrieri Academic Commons.