The official guide called, Publication manual of the American Psychological Association: the official guide to APA style is unfortunately not available online via the library at this time.
The E.J. Pratt and Emmanuel College Libraries (plus many other U of T Libraries) have a print copy that should be always available in the reference section of the library. See this record for the call number and library locations.
See the various topics at the bottom of this Style and Grammar guidelines page and more specifically this page of in-text citation guidelines.
See examples of reference list entries here.
The 9th edition of the MLA guide is available online and in print at several U of T Libraries. It describes how to format various types of citations and guidelines for formatting a paper in MLA style. The following sections will be quite useful:
6.1–6.2: In-Text Citations: Overview
Citation Examples (Appendix 2)
6.31–6.77: Quoting and Paraphrasing Sources
Consult the current,17th edition of this guide for how to format your footnotes or endnotes and bibliography entries (refer to the type you are required, or have chosen to use, "Notes and Bibliography" or "Author-Date").
The following sections for examples of formatting of entries in Notes and Bibliography style:
Chapter 14.23 Examples of notes and bibliography entries for various formats of sources
(books, chapters in books, articles)
Chapter 14.233: Examples for reference works consulted online
(this would be for an entry in an encyclopedia, companion, guide or handbook that has no specific listed/named author)
Chapter 14.234: Citing reference entries by author
(this means an entry in an encyclopedia, companion, guide etc. with a specific listed/named author)
Chapter 14.161: Books consulted online
Refworks is available at no charge to students at the University of Toronto.
Many databases will export directly to Refworks. It can help keep track of your sources and can help create your bibliography (list of works cited) with a few clicks.
Please keep in mind that automatic citation generation tools do occasionally make mistakes, so you should carefully check any bibliography generated by a citation tool/application (check that all nouns that should start with a capital letters have actually been capitalized, etc.)
Please visit this U of T Libraries Refworks page to activate your account and access the tool.
If you have never had a Refworks account, click on: "Log in to Proquest Refworks"
Click on "Create account" and follow the steps to with your utoronto email address.