Citation Styles
Acknowledging your sources is crucial to doing honest academic work. That means citing them properly, using one of several styles. The one you choose depends on your field, your professor's advice if you are a student, and your own preferences. There are 3 major citation styles:
Examples of bibliographic citations for an article: | |
Chicago style | Listengarten, Julia and Watson Keri. 2018. "Staging Representations: Reflections on Performing Activism in a Visual Art and Theatre Collaboration." Scene 6 (1): 29-50. |
MLA style | Listengarten, Julia, and Watson Keri. “Staging Representations: Reflections on Performing Activism in a Visual Art and Theatre Collaboration.” 6.1 (2018): 29–50. Web. Scene 6. |
APA style | Listengarten, J., & Watson Keri. (2018). Staging representations: Reflections on performing activism in a visual art and theatre collaboration. Scene, 6(1), 29-50. doi:101386/scene.6.1.3_2 |
Citation Styles are designed to meet special needs. Despite their differences, all these citation styles have the same basic goals:
To find out more about the different citation styles, please view the list of online references provided below.