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APA PsycNet: How to Export Citations to Citation Management Tools

Posted on by Marta Soto in For Faculty, For Individual Subscribers, For Librarians, For Students

It’s Tutorial Thursday! In this series, we explore APA’s library of video tutorials available on the APA Publishing Training YouTube channel. Please feel free to link to or embed our videos in your library websites or LibGuides, course management systems, or other locations where students, faculty, and researchers will find them.

In this video you’ll learn How to Export Items from APA PsycNet into Citation Management Tools like RefWorks, EndNote, Mendeley, or Zotero. We’ll start by briefly mentioning the benefits of using a citation management tool. Then, we’ll demonstrate how to export results into EndNote Web and RefWorks. We’ll wrap up the video by showing you how to save results to an .RIS file that can be used with EndNote Desktop, Mendeley, Zotero, and Academic Writer.

By the end of this video you will be able to:

  • Explain the benefits of using a citation management tool
  • Export citations from APA PsycInfo into EndNote Web and RefWorks
  • Generate an .RIS file that can be downloaded and imported into tools such as EndNote Desktop, Mendeley, Zotero, and Academic Writer.

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APA Style CENTRAL Expert Tip – Citing APA Style CENTRAL in Your Paper

Posted on by Marta Soto in For Librarians, For Students

While working on a research paper in APA Style CENTRAL®, you may want to add as a reference a video within the Learning Center.

The best way to add APA Style CENTRAL content to My References is to select the Create tab within Add References.

From there, you can choose the reference type that best fits, such as Streaming and other online video (YouTube, Vimeo, etc.), in the Audiovisual Media tab.

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Tutorial Thursday: Inserting References

Posted on by Marta Soto in For Faculty, For Librarians, For Students

It’s Tutorial Thursday! In this series, we explore APA’s library of video tutorials available on the PsycINFO YouTube channel and the APA Style CENTRAL® YouTube channel. Please feel free to link to or embed our videos in your library websites or LibGuides, course management systems, or other locations where students, faculty, and researchers will find them.

For today’s edition of Tutorial Thursday, we’d like to highlight a video on our APA Style CENTRAL YouTube channel: Inserting References.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zSra_P81o4&t=1s

 

This short tutorial will help you use APA Style CENTRAL’s built-in tools to:

  • Add in-text citations in the correct format;
  • Manage your paper reference list;
  • Match in-text citations to the paper reference list.

Please feel free to link to this tutorial in any location where students, faculty, and researchers will find it!

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