Citation Style Guide

by: Mr. Danilo Soriano Jr. y Gonzales

 Citation Styles
• Reference is an important part of a research paper. It
must be consistent and easy to read across different
papers.
• There are predefined styles stating how to set them
out- these are called citation styles.
• Referencing is a method used to demonstrate to the
readers that you have conducted a thorough and
appropriate literature search, and reading.
 Citation Styles

American Modern
Harvard
Psychological Language
Referencing
Association Association

Chicago
Vancouver Turabian
Manual of
System Citation
Style
 Citation Styles

American Psychological Association (APA)

• It is an author/date-based style. This means emphasis is
placed on the author and the date of a piece of work to
uniquely identify it.

Modern Language Association (MLA)

• It is most often applied by the arts and humanities. It is
arguably the most well used of all the citation styles.
 Citation Styles

Harvard Referencing Style

• It consists mainly of the authors' last name and the year of
publication (and page numbers if it is directly quoted) in round
brackets placed within the text. If there is no discernable
author, the title and date are used

Vancouver Referencing Style

• It is mainly used in medical and scientific papers. (Numbered-
referencing style)
 Citation Styles

Chicago Manual of Style

• an "author-date" style, so the citation in the text consists of
the author(s) name and year of publication given wholly or
partly in round brackets

Turabian Referencing Style

• a system used by academics to show where another author's
finding or theory has contributed to their work. It is a simplified
version of the Chicago