APA (American Psychological Association) is the preferred citation style for many academic disciplines at Xavier. However, there are many other citations styles: MLA, Chicago, Blue Book, Vancouver, etc. A citation style dictates not only how you cite references in your bibliography, but also how you create in-text citations within the body of your paper. In addition, a citation style may specify how your paper is organized, your margins, your titles and subtitles, running headers, footers, graphs, tables, images, etc. It is recommended that you purchase a print copy of the style manual used for most of your papers.
You may use RefWorks or some other bibliographic management tool to generate your Works Cited, References, or Bibliography. Even if you use one of these this time-saving tools, you will need to check all of your references and make sure they are in the correct citation style format.
To satisfy this step complete the following tasks:
In Microsoft Word, highlight your citation and click the more info arrow for Paragraph (found under the Home tab in Word 2007).
The Paragraph dialog box will open.
In the Indentation section, click the down arrow in the Special textbox and click Hanging.
All subsequent references you type will be in this style.
Save this Word document to your computer desktop.
Create a new entry in your Blackboard e-portfolio (Expo Directory).
Upload your Word document file into your new Blackboard e-portfolio entry. Don't copy and paste it because it will lose some of the Word formatting, like hanging indentations.
If you need help with e-portfolio refer to these instructions.