APA (American Psychological Association) is generally used by Education, Psychology, and Sciences.
MLA (Modern Language Association) style is generally used by the Humanities.
The Online Writing Lab (OWL) at Purdue University houses writing resources and instructional material as a free service of the Writing Lab at Purdue. Students, members of the community, and users worldwide are welcome to use OWL for information to assist with writing projects.
OWL has extensive examples, explanations and tutorials on all citation styles, including APA, MLA and Chicago. If you have a citation question, it's almost certain you'll find your answer on OWL.
Verbal Citations add credibility to your speeches and properly give credit to others for their work and ideas. Mentioning ideas and facts that are not your own within your speech, without verbally citing them, is plagiarism.
Verbal Citations shouldn't interrupt the flow of your speech. Use an introductory phrase and keep them brief but include the important "who, what, when" details:
"According to Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences president, Jim Bailey, ..."
"In 2014, Maureen Russell, an ethnomusicologist at UCLA, wrote ..."
To cite your sources within a PowerPoint or Google Slides presentation, you should include your references or in-text citations on each slide. In-text citations for slides are formatted the same way as in research papers.
You can also provide citations during your presentation verbally, by providing a reference list slide at the end of your presentation with corresponding in-text citations or combining verbal and written citations.
For any presentation, be sure your audience knows where the information, visuals, and other materials you use are from. Remember to double-check the assignment requirements and your instructor’s preferences.
Reference Slides are formatted the same way as Reference Pages with a few minor differences:
For APA questions, check out the APA FAQ on the APA Style Blog.
Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association by 
The Chicago Manual of Style
MLA Handbook by Check out the MLA Style Center for FAQ, sample papers and research help.
| Citation Management System (CMS): A tool that allows you to collect and organize articles, generate citations, and compile works cited/bibliography. | Endnote | Mendeley | Zotero |
| Product name | EndNote Basic/Online | Mendeley Reference Manager (MRM) | Zotero |
| Where to get it | https://endnote.com/ | https://www.mendeley.com/ | https://www.zotero.org/ |
| Costs | Free (for Basic only) | Free up-front (cost to upgrade storage) | Free up-front (cost to upgrade storage) |
| Main access (web/cloud or desktop/laptop) | Web/cloud only | Desktop/Laptop and web/cloud. Can sync with multiple computers. | Desktop/laptop and web/cloud. Can sync with multiple computers. |
| Registration/account required? | Yes | Yes | Only for cloud sync and collaborator sharing. Can use locally without an account. |
| Manuals, How-to, Tutorials, FAQ | Yes | Yes | Yes |
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| Storage (references and file attachments) | 50,000 references or 2GB | Unlimited on local computer, 2GB in cloud (can pay to upgrade) | Unlimited on local computer, 300MB in cloud (can pay to upgrade) |
| Reference import methods | Manual RIS file Direct from many databases PubMed OCLC (library Catalog) |
Manual RIS file Direct from some Elsevier databases PDF drag & drop Identifier (e.g., DOI) |
Manual RIS file PDF drag & drop Identifier (e.g., DOI, ISBN) |
| Exporting records | Yes, but doesn't transfer attachments | Yes, in desktop version, but doesn't transfer attachments | Yes, but doesn't transfer attachments |
| Browser/Web importer * | Endnote Click- full text articles and documents Capture- Websites, etc. -Chrome -Firefox -Safari (?) |
Mendeley Web Importer- webpages, Documents, etc. -Chrome -Firefox -Edge |
Zotero Connector -Chrome -Firefox -Safari -Edge |
| * Browser/Web Importer:(add-on/feature) that allows you to upload papers, web pages and other documents (not just the citations) into the CMS. This is helpful if you want to review the articles you cited. It also means that the CMS can be used to store and organize your research in one place; CMS are not just for organizing citations. | |||
| PDF Annotations * | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| * PDF Annotation: You're able to highlight and take notes on imported pdfs | |||
| Control overall organizing citation projects | Yes | Yes | yes |
| Collaboration tools * | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| * Collaboration Tools: Allow you to share citations and uploaded documents with co-authors and/or groups who are also able to add content to share with co-authors. | |||
| Write & Cite/Citation Plug-in * | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| *Write & Cite: (add-on/feature) that allows you to directly impute “in-text” citations into your documents. | |||
| Compatible with ... | Microsoft Word Macintosh Pages | Word LibreOffice (not Google Docs) |
Word LibreOffice Google Docs |
| Citation Generation Feature | yes | yes | yes |
| Name of CG tool | NA | Mendeley Cite | NA |
| Compatible with ... | Word LibreOffice (not Google Docs) |
Word LibreOffice (not Google Docs) |
Windows Word Macintosh Word LibreOffice Google Docs (automatically installed with Zotero Connector plugin) |
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