Subject Guides: Psychology: Find Articles

Norco College Library's APA Style Guide
Includes information from citation examples & help to formatting your paper.
APA Style Central
The official guide to APA Style, written by the American Psychological Association.
Purdue OWL: APA Formatting and Style Guide

Norco College Library's Plagiarism Guide
Explains what plagiarism is and how to best avoid it.

OWL Purdue - Writing in Psychology Overview
A writing guide for Psychology. Describes types of writing and suggests tips on writing styles.

Gale One File -- Psychology
Find peer-reviewed articles in all fields of psychology.

Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection This link opens in a new window
Journals pertaining to child & adolescent psychology, counseling, anthropology, emotional and behavioral characteristics, mental processes, observational and experimental methods, psychiatry, and psychology.
Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Access to peer-reviewed journals, magazines and more, about a wide variety of subjects. This is a great place to start when looking for scholarly articles.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Digital library of older peer-reviewed academic journals, books, and primary sources.
Violence and Gender This link opens in a new window
peer-reviewed journal focusing on the role of gender in the understanding, prediction, and prevention of acts of violence. The Journal is the international forum for the critical examination of biological, genetic, behavioral, psychological, racial, ethnic, and cultural factors as they relate to the gender of perpetrators of violence.

Database Tips:

Less is more! Keep the searches down to fewer words.
Use a variety of words or phrases to describe what you're looking for, and don't be afraid to do multiple searches.
Find a few articles that work, and look for new words/phrases to describe what you're looking for (and write them down for later reference!!), and search again using those new phrases or words.
Watch out for the number of results in your searches, it’s important! Less is more -- try to get less than 60 results per search so you can look over your results over quickly. Note that the first page of results may not be the best picks for your topic, so look them all over!

If you need more help, you can chat with a Librarian 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, email us, or make an appointment for a one on one consultation online or face to face in the library. You can also check out our Searching for Articles & Using Databases Guide below:

Make sure your topic isn't too broad, such as Health
Narrow your topic by:
- Including a group type, such as Childhood Obesity
- Including a location, such as California
- Change the date range to the last few years, so the information is current

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