APA

APA documentation is used mainly in the social sciences, and although the format uses parenthetical documentation, the citation includes the author's last name and the date of publication of the materials. If you are quoting directly, you will also cite the page number, but you shouldn't have as many direct quotations in APA as you would in MLA, since many academic authors of English papers quote from the literature they are discussing.

An excellent source for learning details on the APA method of documentation is APA In-Text Citation from the Writer's Workshop at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

In addition, the American Psychological Association Web site has a great deal of information on how to cite electronic resources in Electronic Reference Formats Recommended by the American Psychological Association.