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Citation in
APA, MLA &
Chicago
ASHIA AKTER AKHI
ROLL : 01
REG. NO. : 107296
BATCH : 34TH / A
SEMESTER : 12TH
COURSE CODE: 1202

COURSE TITLE: SOCIOLOGY OF

GLOBALIZATION.
Full Form of MLA, APA & Chicago

MODERN LANGUAGE AMERICAN THE CHICAGO

ASSOCIATION (MLA) PSYCHOLOGICAL MANUAL OF STYLE
ASSOCIATION (APA)
Focus of MLA Styles
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Humanities and related areas (i.e. literature)
Focuses on authorship: “…(Smith and Johnson)”
Format is designed for ease of presentation
Often viewed as “easier” to follow by students
Commonly taught first to students
 Focus of APA Styles
American Psychological Association (APA)
Social sciences (i.e. psychology, sociology, and linguistics)
Focuses on date of publication: “…(Smith & Johnson, 2009)”
Format is designed for comparison of research and determining relevance
Often thought of as more difficult by students
Commonly taught as an alternative citation style
 Focus of Chicago Styles
THE CHICAGO MANUAL OF STYLE

Academic writing (History and the Humanities)

Focuses on author's name, title or source, and publication information.
(Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea (London: Penguin, 1997))
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Italicize titles and subtitles of major works, such as books and journals.

Set article and chapter titles in quotation marks.
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Capitalize the first letter of each word in a title.
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Additional information, such as volume or page number, may be required.
Format
MLA Format APA Format Chicago Format
In-Text Romantic poetry is Ineffective praise is Later modernists began to
characterized by the based on a students’ acknowledge the
“spontaneous papers rather than the fragmentation, ambiguity
overflow of students’ prior and larger chaos that
powerful feelings” performance (Muijs and characterized modern life
(Wordsworth 263) Reynolds, 2011, p. 124) (Harvey 1990, 22)
Bibliography, Wordsworth, Muijs, D., & Reynolds, D. Harvey, David. 1990
Worked Cited, William. Lyrical (2011). Effective “Modernity and
Or Reference Ballads. Oxford, teaching: Evidence and Modernism” In The
List 1967 practices. Thousand Condition of
Oaks, CA: Sage Postmodernity: An
Enquiry into the Origins of
Cultural Change, 10-38.
Malden, MA: Blackwell.
Examples
MLA APA Chicago
(RAMSEY, 2006) (JOHN 5) CARLOS SMITH,
WORLD WAR II,
The APA This referencing (NEW YORK, CENGEGE
referencing style method emphasizes LEARING, 2009), 32
emphasizes the two main features in
author’s name in-text citation Was collected to buy
and date of namely author’s essential school
publication. name(s) and the page supplies and materials
number. for the kid’s education.
 MLA VS APA (The key differences)
MLA Differences APA
Required separate title page Title Page Does not require separate title page.
40 or more words quotations should be Long 4 or more lines quotations are double
displayed in a double spaced block of Quotations intented, single spaced. No quotation
typewritten lines. No quotation marks marks needed.
needed. Should have five spaces from the
left margin.
Author’s last name, publication date, Works Author’s last name, source name,
source name Cited publication date
Social sciences and liberal arts; Most Natural sciences. Physics, biology,
education, psychology, sociology, politics, Used chemistry, geology etc.
etc. For
Forward, S., & Buck, C. (2002). Examples Forward, Susan, and Craig Buck.
Toxic parents: overcoming their hurtful Toxic Parents: Overcoming Their Hurtful
legacy and reclaiming your life. Bantam. Legacy and Reclaiming your Life.
Bantam, 2002.
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https://www.scribbr.com/citing-sources/how-to-cite-wikipedia/
(Wiki)