Recommended readings in your subject site can give you an idea of the type of resources that your lecturer values.

Distinguishing between citations for books, book chapters, journal articles and websites can help you to search for the items in Primo Search, Google Scholar, or Journal Databases.

Below we list some of the most common resources and their citation structure when formatted in the APA 7th style.

Primo Search is the best place to search for an item when you already know the details. But you need to be careful in what you put in the search box.

If you paste in the whole citation you will usually get no results. Sometimes, the LESS you put in the BETTER.

• For a journal article, search for the article title. Put the main phrase from the article in double quotation marks. If you can't locate it that way, search the journal title.
• For a book, search for the book title - if you get too many results, add an author surname.
• For a book chapter, you can try searching by the chapter title, but you might need to search by the book title.