Research Guides: SW 542: Trauma and Human Rights: Scholarly Research and APA Resources

Requirements for the Papers

All your papers need to be written in APA 7th and include a differing amount of professional references for each part with a total of 12.

The databases on the left side are the ones suggested to find scholarly and academic articles for your project, and the resources on the right side deal with APA paper formatting and your citations.

Databases for Scholarly Information

SocINDEX

Leading resource for sociology. More Info
Partial Full-Text UB ONLY
APA PsycINFO

Psychology, psychiatry, social work & related disciplines. More Info

Partial Full-Text UB ONLY
JSTOR

Full-text of the most important journals in the social sciences, humanities, general sciences as well as in the fields of mathematics, botany & ecology. More Info
Full-Text UB ONLY

Paper Format

The best place to go for information about how to format a paper in APA is Purdue OWL. It details the entire process and provides templates that you can download for each section.

APA Citation Style

You will need to format a References page that includes all the resources you used for the project.

You can use the following guides for assistance:

UB Library - APA Guidelines Page
This is a simplified version of the full guide that you can find either on the APA website or Purdue OWL.
EndNote - A Citation Manager
The UB Library provides access to EndNote. There are both downloadable and web versions available. Please reference this guide for the ins and the outs of the program.