Basics Elements of a Citation
Author -- Title of the work -- Name and Location of the Publisher -- Date of publication -- Page numbers of Publication
Citation Styles
♦ APA (American Psychological Association) Style
→ Van Roon, A., Mulder, L., Althaus, M., and Mulder, G. (2004). Introducing a baroflex model for studying cardiovascular effects of mental workload. Psychophysiology, 41, 961–981.
♦ MLA (Modern Language Association) Style
→ Lentricchia, Frank. Modernist Quartet. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
♦ Chicago Style
→ Christine Stansell, American Moderns: Bohemian New York and the Creation of a New Century (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 2000), 18.
When you compose a research paper you need to follow a formal style. Different disciplines have adopted their own distinctive styles. Usually, your professor will tell you which style to use in your research paper. Click on the links below to learn the basics of the three major citation styles used in scholarly research.
APA Style
MLA Style
Chicago Style