Style: APA and MLA 

Templates for APA and MLA papers

• NEW: In the summer of 2007 APA came out with new suggestions for the format for electronic resources. They published APA Style Guide to Electronic Resources, which can be borrowed from the NVIT library. The link above is to the Lydia M. Olsen Library website of the University of Northern Michigan.
• Download a NVIT Word template for APA papers,  prepared to give a student guide to APA formatting, and to give advice how to organize an APA paper.
• Download a Word template for MLA papers, from Wright State University.
• Other templates are also available for MLA and APA thanks to Wright State University  Open these documents, then SAVE them to your hard drive and locate them using Word.  Replace the material given with your own, but use the format provided in the template.
• Build Citations using Landmark's Citation Machine. Select the Print or Electronic resource type that you want to cite, fill in the data fields, and an APA and MLA citations will appear,  both "in-text" and "reference list" citations.  Minor errors still might be present, so check the results carefully.

APA (American Psychological Association)

The APA has issued an article, APA Style Guide to Electronic References. It is available from the NVIT library. Since this has to be purchased, the major recommendations for common formats have been provided in an article summary. See also the following but note the information in most is not current.

• Citation examples for electronic resources from the APA website.
• Landmark's Citation Machine.
• Lake Sumter Community College Library provides many excellent citation examples using the 5th Edtion of APA,  for print and non-print.
• APA Style Essentials by Douglas Degelman, Ph.D., and Martin Lorenzo Harris, Ph.D.  A 5th Edition guide that has links to the key sections of a paper. 
• APA Web References, some examples reflecting changes during the summer of 2007.
• The Online Writing Lab at Purdue is a cite often recommended by instructors.
• OWL also provides an Example of an APA formatted document, and notations are made in red to help you understand APA features

MLA (Modern Languages Association)

• Landmark's Citation Machine.
• Humanities Documenting Sources gives a short and useful guide to MLA written by Diana Hacker, author of many handbooks and textbooks.
• MLA Style Guide from the University of Southern Mississippi shows many examples for citation list purposes.
• Using Modern Language Association  (MLA) Format from the Online Writing Lab at Purdue.