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Your department sets it β€” check your assignment brief first. As a rule of thumb: psychology, education and social sciences β†’ APA; literature and humanities β†’ MLA or Chicago; UK business and many UK universities β†’ Harvard; medicine and nursing β†’ Vancouver; engineering and computer science β†’ IEEE.

Citation Style Guides

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APA 7th Edition
Author–date in-text citations and the reference list β€” plus what changed in the 7th edition and how to handle DOIs.
PsychologyEducationSocial Sciences
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MLA 9th Edition
The container model and the nine core elements β€” how to build a Works Cited entry for almost any source.
LiteratureHumanitiesLanguages
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Harvard Referencing
Harvard is a family, not a single rulebook. Learn the common core and cite books, journals and websites with confidence.
UK UniversitiesBusiness
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Chicago Style
Notes–Bibliography vs Author–Date, footnotes, ibid., and how to format a bibliography β€” both systems made clear.
HistoryArts
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Vancouver Style
Numbered citations, superscripts and reference-list order β€” the standard for medicine, nursing and biomedical sciences.
MedicineNursing
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IEEE Citation Style
Bracketed numbers and a numbered reference list for engineering and computer science β€” papers, standards and proceedings.
EngineeringComputer Science
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OSCOLA (Law)
The footnote standard for UK law β€” cases, legislation and secondary sources, with the distinctive no-full-stops style.
UK LawLegal Research
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MHRA Style
Footnotes and a bibliography for modern languages and the arts β€” single quotes, "p./pp." references and primary-text citation.
LanguagesLiterature
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AMA Style
Superscript numbered citations for medicine β€” citation order, the first-three-then-et-al rule and PubMed abbreviations.
MedicineHealth Sciences
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Turabian Style
Chicago for students β€” the same two systems, plus title-page and front-matter guidance for theses and dissertations.
StudentsTheses
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APA In-Text Citations
A deep dive on APA in-text: parenthetical vs narrative, group authors, no author or date, quotes and secondary sources.
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By Source Type

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Citing Journal Articles
The same article in six styles side by side β€” APA, MLA, Harvard, Chicago, Vancouver and IEEE β€” plus DOIs and preprints.
All StylesDOI
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Citing Books
The same book in every style, plus chapters in edited books, editions, translations and e-books.
All StylesChapters
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Citing Websites
Web pages across all styles β€” no author, no date, access dates and pages that change or disappear.
All StylesNo author/date
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Citing Dissertations
Theses in every style β€” degree, institution, published vs unpublished, ProQuest and EThOS, and the grey literature.
All StylesProQuest/EThOS
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Integrity & Skills

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Integrity
How to Avoid Plagiarism
The types of plagiarism, how citation and paraphrasing prevent it, Turnitin similarity scores, AI and the habits that keep work your own.
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