APA Style Central (trial access)

APA Style Central is designed to help users develop their writing and professional research skills, by combining sophisticated learning and teaching tools, advanced writing and content management technology, and full integration of APA’s best-selling Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association to create a web-based suite of integrated services and tools.

APA Style Central provides the means of and instruction on how to think and write like scholars as it prepares the next, and future generations of scholarly writers. It focuses on the application and proper use of APA Style, the leading writing style for the behavioural sciences and many other disciplines. It serves students who are new to academic writing and APA Style, as well as those who are more advanced in their academic careers but need to reinforce their understanding of APA Style rules. It provides learning and assessment resources for instructors and components for researchers who are actively publishing.

This video preview provides an overview of APA Style Central.

The database is accessible through the link above, and the Library Catalogue, and from the E-Resources@the University of Melbourne blog where you can also leave comments about the database.

This trial will end 18 August 2016.