Social Work

Starting points and links for your Social Work research.

Citation Style for Social Work

The Social Work program prefers the use of the APA style 5th edition rather than the 6th. The Dalhousie guide is recommended for formatting citations. There are two other documents that provide examples on the formatting of your overall paper.

Citation Guides

Citation Guides by Information Source (Websites)

Citation Guides by Style (Websites)

Citation Management

Use a web-based citation tool to seemlessly create and organize your own personal online filing cabinet of references and to create bibliographies.

APA Citation style for Mobile App reference

The reference formats for apps are very similar to those for print and online reference works, with the exception that the title of the reference work is not italicized and is capitalized using title case. The version number and the description “Mobile application software” are also provided after the title to further identify the work for the reader. Here are two additional examples, one with an author and one without an author:

Deglin, J. H., & Vallerand, A. H. (2010). Davis’s Drug Guide for Nurses (12th ed.) [Mobile application software]. Retrieved from http://www.skyscape.com/estore/productdetail.aspx?productid=219

 Naproxen. (2010). In J. H. Deglin & A. H. Vallerand (Eds.), Davis’s Drug Guide for Nurses (12th ed.) [Mobile application software]. Retrieved from http://www.skyscape.com/estore/productdetail.aspx?productid=219

 In text, these would be cited:
(Deglin & Vallerand, 2010; “Naproxen,” 2010).

From correspondance between Ellen Olsen-Lynch and APA:

Lazer, Stefanie. <slazer@apa.org> (2013, February 26). Re: How to cite Mobile App content? [personal communication]