Starting Points - Leadership - Research Guides at Augsburg College

Research Tools

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Style Guides

Check out these APA and MLA style guides for tips on creating citations and organizing a research paper.

APA Formatting and Style Guide (Purdue)

Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association

Call Number: Reference BF76.7 .P83 2010

APA Style Guide to Electronic References

Call Number: Reference BF76.7 .P831 2007

Use it online!

MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers

Call Number: Reference LB2369 .G53 2009

Research and Documentation in the Electronic Age (4th ed.) - Hacker, Diana

Call Number: Reference Desk LB2369 .H33 2006

Diana Hacker's respected guide also has a handy online companion where you can quickly see citations and sample papers in APA, MLA, Chicago, and CSE styles.

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Annotated Bibliographies and Literature Reviews

Annotated Bibliographies

See Purdue's excellent guide to creating annotated bibliographies: lists of scholarly sources with brief descriptions.

Writing Literature Reviews - Galvan, Jose L.

Call Number: Reference H61.8 .G3 2006

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Databases

Excellent sources for Leadership-related scholarly articles, books, book chapters, conference proceedings, theses, dissertations, and more.

Academic Search Premier
The Academic Search Premier database, published by EBSCO, indexes more than 8,300 journals in all academic disciplines, 4,600 of those journals full-text.
Education Full Text
This database, published by WilsonWeb, supports research in education and policy-making. It indexes more than 770 journals, 400 of them peer-reviewed, and 350 of them full-text.
ABI / Inform
This database indexes academic journals, but it also includes general business magazines, professional journals, and selected trade journals. It also provides access to full-text Wall Street Journal articles.
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Books

Good starts for general research in Leadership.

Encyclopedia of Leadership - Goethals, George R., et al.

Call Number: Reference HD57.7 .E53 2004 v. 1–4

From "Achievement Motivation" to "Youth Leadership," this four-volume scholarly encyclopedia includes "sidebars," such as the one under Susan B. Anthony's entry that gives a transcript of her 1873 trial for illegal voting. Entries have reference lists for further reading.

The Bass Handbook of Leadership : Theory, Research, and Managerial Applications (4th ed.) - Bass, Bernard M.

Call Number: Reference HM141 .S83 2008

This authoritative handbook covers the definition and history of leadership in general, and the traits and ethical standpoints of individual leaders in particular.

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