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Adapted from University of Wisconsin La Crosse Communication in the Biological Sciences

For help writing your References section, use APA formatting guide from the Purdue Online Writing Lab: []
- Tabs on the left side of the screen will direct you to the appropriate way to format each source - Primary literature articles in peer-edited journals = Articles in Periodicals - Websites = Electronic Sources

Common errors of the English language:
amount vs. number: []
 * //Amount// words relate to quantities of things that are measured in bulk; //number// to things that can be counted.

affect vs. effect: [] they're/their/there: []
 * When “affect” is accented on the final syllable (a-FECT), it is usually a verb meaning “have an influence on”: “The million-dollar donation from the industrialist did not affect my vote against the Clean Air Act.”
 * The more common one is a noun: “When I left the stove on, the //effect// was that the house filled with smoke.” When you //affect// a situation, you have an //effect// on it.
 * Many people are so spooked by apostrophes that a word like “they’re” seems to them as if it might mean almost anything. In fact, it’s always a contraction of “they are.” If you’ve written “they’re,” ask yourself whether you can substitute “they are.” If not, you’ve made a mistake.
 * “Their” is a possessive pronoun like “her” or “our” “They eat their hotdogs with sauerkraut.”
 * Everything else is “there.” “//There// goes the ball, out of the park! See it? Right //there!// //There// aren’t very many home runs like that.”