‘Citation’ or providing references in your intellectual work is very important. There are many citation styles, many of them are often created by professional organizations. Following are some of the most commonly used citation styles:
- APA Style
- MLA Style
- AMA Style
- Chicago Style
- Turabian Style
APA Style is developed by the American Psychological Association. They have formulated proper guidelines for citing resources use in the research. In this style the list of resources at the end of the text are called references. Endnotes and footnotes are not provided in APA style. Instead parenthetical citations are used, in which the sources are provided with the references in the text. The APA style also states the citation guidelines for electronic resources.
MLA Style is developed by Modern Language Association. In MLA style the list of sources at the end of the text is called “Works Cited”. Instead of giving footnotes and endnotes, the author’s last name and page numbers are provided within the body of text. MLA style clearly states the rules for citing electronic references.
Chicago Style or the Chicago Manual of Style offers two different styles of citing references. One is known as the notes-bibliography style and the other one is author-date style.
AMA Style developed by American Medical Association. In this style the references are provided in order of their appearance in the text.
Turabian Style is based on Chicago Style and is developed by Kate L Turabian. The list of sources at the end of the text is known as Bibliography. Footnotes are provided at the end of each page.