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Music Education: Citing Sources

How to Cite

The field of education often uses APA citation style. Hover over the "Citing Sources" tab to see a page just for APA.

See the other boxes on this page for help generating citations in databases and managing citations.

Citing Through Databases

Many databases will generate a citation for you in the style of your choosing. They're not always perfect, but they provide a helpful start. Be on the look out for the feature when you're on a database!
 

Research & Citation Managers

Part of researching is having a strategy on how to manage all these resources/citations you've found. You can use a citation management tool like Zotero to organize citations to sources, collect digital files such as full-text PDFs, and cite sources automatically when writing papers.