EMCH 112: Engineering Materials (Cosgriff)

Citation builders, like Citefast, are online tools that help you to create (or "build") citations. Some are FREE to anyone, at any time. Fill in the blanks for each source and the citation builder will format the citation according to the style you choose. If your source is a webpage, you can enter it to automatically fill out most of the blanks. Double check the data and then you'll have your citation ready to go.

APA citations consist of four basic parts: Author. (Date). Title. Source.

• Author: List the author's last name, a comma, then first and middle initials or the organization creating the work followed by a period.
• Date: Within parentheses, note the date of publication - typically just the year or note n.d. if no date of publication or last update is found, then include a period after the ending parenthesis.
• Title:
  • If the work is a standalone item like a full website or book, put the title in italics and only capitalize the first word of the title and subtitle followed by a period.
  • If the work is part of a larger publication like one page of a website or one article from an encyclopedia, list the title in regular text (no italics or quotes) and only capitalize the first word of the title and subtitle followed by a period.
• Source:
  • If the work is a standalone item, list the publisher for books and/or the URL for online works. End with a period unless you are listing a URL.
  • If the work is part of a larger publication, list the title of that larger publication in italics and capitalize primary words like a normal title, followed by the URL for online works. End with a period unless you are listing a URL.

Examples:

Single Page of Larger Website (if there is no author, put the title first instead)

Birth of the chemical elements. (n.d.). Periodic Table of Elements and Chemistry. https://www.chemicool.com/birth-of-the-chemical-elements.html

Article in Online Encyclopedia (add the word In before the Source)

Cayton, A., & Schmidlin, T. W. (2024). Ohio. In World Book Advanced. https://www.worldbookonline.com/advanced/article?id=ar400320

Book
McPherson, J. M. (2009). Abraham Lincoln. Oxford University Press.

To cite an image from online in a PowerPoint, you'll insert the image and then insert a text box below the image that has the copyright attribution for the image. This is basically the same information as your citation, but in a slightly different order.

Format for Text Box Under Images (can copy and paste the following text then fill out or delete the pieces of information as needed):

Note. From Title of Webpage, by A. A. Author and B. B. Author, year, Site Name (URL).

Image Copyright Attribution in PowerPoint

For more information check out the APA Style page on Clip Art or Stock Image References: https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/references/examples/clip-art-references

• Use the Title and Content slide layout
• Use multiple slides if needed
• Title the slide(s) with References
• Click into the Content box and add your APA citations in alphabetical order by author's last name (or title when there is no author)
  • Bonus APA formatting (optional): Select all of your citations. In the Home tab's Paragraph section, click the Bullets list icon to remove the bullet points. Then click the arrow in the bottom right corner of this section for Paragraph formatting options.
    • Change Indentation Before Text to 0.5"
    • Change the dropdown after special to Hanging
    • The By after Hanging should default to 0.5"
    • Click OK
• Even if you used a webpage for multiple slides, you only need to include it once in your references

PowerPoint References

PowerPoint References in Full APA Format