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Browse 15 Citation Style Guides
Explore rules, examples, and formatting standards tailored to each discipline.
APA 7th Edition
APA style uses author-date in-text citations with a corresponding alphabetical reference list at the end of the manuscript. The 7th edition emphasizes clarity, concise attribution, and DOI hyperlinks.
Explore APA Guide →MLA 9th Edition
MLA style emphasizes author and page number for direct attribution in the humanities, prioritizing primary sources and the container model for citations.
Explore MLA Guide →Chicago 17th Edition (Notes & Bibliography)
Chicago Notes & Bibliography style uses superscript footnote or endnote numbers throughout the text paired with a comprehensive final bibliography.
Explore Chicago Guide →Harvard Referencing System
The Harvard author-date referencing standard is widely favored across UK and Commonwealth universities for business, social sciences, and multidisciplinary programs.
Explore Harvard Guide →IEEE Style
IEEE style is a sequential numeric system enclosed in square brackets. References are listed in order of first appearance in the manuscript, not alphabetically.
Explore IEEE Guide →Vancouver Style
Vancouver style is the dominant biomedical reference system using numeric citation markers in the text linked to a numbered reference list following NLM standards.
Explore Vancouver Guide →ACS Style (American Chemical Society)
ACS style supports superscript numbers, italicized numbers in parentheses, or author-date citations, with bolded publication years in chemical bibliographies.
Explore ACS Guide →AMA Manual of Style
Published by the American Medical Association, AMA style uses superscript numbers outside periods and commas, with compact, unpunctuated author initials.
Explore AMA Guide →CSE Style (Council of Science Editors)
CSE style offers three distinct citation formats: Citation-Sequence (numeric), Citation-Name (alphabetical numeric), and Name-Year (author-date), serving biological and environmental sciences.
Explore CSE Guide →ASA Style (American Sociological Association)
ASA style is tailored for sociological research, utilizing author-date parenthetical citations with full first names of authors in the reference list.
Explore ASA Guide →The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation
The standard legal citation manual in the United States, prescribing strict citation forms for judicial opinions, statutes, law reviews, and legislative documents.
Explore Bluebook Guide →Turabian 9th Edition
Kate L. Turabian's student adaptation of The Chicago Manual of Style, specifically tailored for student essays, MA theses, and PhD dissertations.
Explore Turabian Guide →APSA Style (American Political Science Association)
Governed by the American Political Science Association, this style adapts Chicago Author-Date for political science, government publications, and constitutional documents.
Explore APSA Guide →NLM Style (National Library of Medicine)
The National Library of Medicine standard developed for PubMed and NCBI databases. Characterized by strict punctuation, standardized date formats, and unique digital object identifiers.
Explore NLM Guide →ASME Style (American Society of Mechanical Engineers)
ASME style uses bracketed numbers in order of appearance in engineering papers, with authors' initials preceding surnames and capitalized article titles in quotes.
Explore ASME Guide →The Three Major Referencing Systems
1. Author-Date Systems
APA, Harvard, ASA, APSA. The author’s surname and year appear in parentheses (e.g. Smith, 2024), allowing readers to gauge recency immediately without losing narrative context.
2. Numeric Systems
IEEE, Vancouver, AMA, NLM, ACS, ASME, CSE. Citations use bracketed numbers [1] or superscripts¹ ordered by first appearance or alphabetically, preserving layout space in dense STEM manuscripts.
3. Notes & Bibliography
Chicago, Turabian, Bluebook. Citations live in footnotes or endnotes, keeping prose uninterrupted and allowing detailed commentary, common in history, humanities, and law.
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The choice depends on your discipline and publication venue. Psychology and education use APA 7th; humanities prefer MLA 9th; history uses Chicago Notes & Bibliography; engineering and computer science rely on IEEE; medicine and life sciences use Vancouver, AMA, or NLM; chemistry adheres to ACS.
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