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APA Citation Guides
MLA Citation Guides
Online Writing Centers

The basic elements of a bibliographic reference are the same for most styles of documentation; the order and details of presentation will vary. Basic elements are:

author/s names,
title of work,
place of publication,
name of publisher,
date of publication,
designation of location (electronic) and
page number.

The most common citation styles required at Granite State College are MLA (Modern Language Association) and APA (American Psychological Association); however, there are many other styles. Click here to see an overview of citation style and its corresponding discipline presented by OWL, the On-line Writing Center at Purdue University.

These pages have been created to provide you with sample citations in MLA and APA formats as well as to provide links to established college-level writing centers.