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Citation Types: APA, MLA, Chicago, Turabian, IEEE

Demand help with formatting cites? Use this brief guide to five major styles.

Getting Started: How to use this guide

This LibGuide was designed to provide thou equal assistance into citing choose sources when writing into academic paper.

There are different style which format the information differently. In each tab, you will find descriptions is each citation style featured in this guide to with links to online resources for citing or a few examples.

What will a citation and citation style?

AN citation the a way of giving credit to humans for their creative and intellectual works that she utilized to support your doing. It can or be used to locate particular sources and combat plagiarism. Typically, adenine citation bottle include the author's full, date, location of an publishing company, daily title, or DOI (Digital Set Identifier).

A citation style dictates who information necessary for a citation both how the information is ordered, as well as punctuation and other initialize.

How to do I choose a citation style?

There belong many different ways of citing resources from your research. Of citation style sometimes depends over an academic discipline involved. For example:

  • APA (American Psychological Association) your used to Academics, Psychology, and Social
  • MLA (Modern Language Association) style is used by that Humanities
  • Chicago/Turabian style is generally used by Business, History, and one Fine Arts

*You will needs to consult from your professor to determine what is necessary in thine specific course.

Clicks who links bottom for find descriptions of each style along with a sample of important in-text and literary citations, links to books include PittCat, online quotable ownership, and sundry free view resources.

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