Research Guide for

PSYC 2210 Developmental Psychology: Life Span (Peterson)

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Find Empirical Articles (peer-reviewed)

Scholarly or peer-reviewed journal articles contain research of experts in a field. They are often very specific, complex, and contain substantial bibliographies.

MEDLINE/PubMed
PubMed contains citations to articles in MEDLINE and other sources. Selected full text articles available. Click the Find Full Text button with the Normandale logo to see if the full text of the article is available in another database.

PsycNET
Articles on psychology topics from journals published by the APA (American Psychological Association).
 

Find Articles

Academic Search Premier (EbscoHost)
Articles in all subjects from scholarly journals, magazines, and newspapers. An all-purpose database and often a good place to start.

Academic OneFile (Gale)
Academic OneFile (Gale)Articles in all subjects from scholarly journals, magazines, and newspapers. An all-purpose database.


JSTOR
Scholarly articles, ebooks, and primary sources in the social sciences, humanities, earth and biological sciences, and more. Includes image results from Artstor.

What do scholarly articles look like?

Scholarly articles have common attributes that are often represented with section headings, which are common sections of a research article, they include, abstract, literature review, methods, summary, conclusion, discussion, bibliography, charts or graphs.

The content will be lengthy and you will not find a lot of color images or advertisements.

Within the text of the article, you will find many citations.

The language is technical and the vocabulary is advanced.

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Cite Your Sources (APA)

APA Quick Guide (PDF)
A guide to APA citation format based on the 7th edition of the APA Publication Manual.

APA Formatting and Style Guide (OWL at Purdue)
A comprehensive guide to APA formatting and style (7th edition). See examples of APA formats for papers, References lists, in-text citations, footnotes, and more.

Cite your Sources (MLA)

MLA Quick Guide (PDF)
See MLA citation examples for the most common types of sources (9th edition).

MLA Formatting and Style Guide (OWL at Purdue)
This website offers examples for the general format of MLA research papers, in-text citations, and the Works Cited page. Uses MLA 9th edition.