Reference & Citation Guides

All sorts of academic papers need to be cited using citation styles like MLA, APA, Chicago, and others. Citation/reference styles such as those mentioned above can be used as rules for writing various academic papers and other literary pieces. Therefore, it is very necessary to understand the citation/reference style needed for each essay or any […]

If you are a close follower of conferences you’ll have noticed some differences in the formatting styles of their conference papers, including citations and references. Because of this lack of uniformity in conference paper formatting, it is very necessary to first check the conference conventions and paper submission guidelines of the conference organizer before you […]

If you are a close follower of conferences you’ll have noticed some differences in the formatting styles of their conference papers, including citations and references. Because of this lack of uniformity in conference paper formatting, it is very necessary to first check the conference conventions and paper submission guidelines of the conference organizer before you […]

This guide covers how to cite a picture or image regardless of whether you found those images through a web page, google images, some museum website, or through lecture notes or an online article. We’ll cover how to use a text citation and make sure you format the citation correctly given the website name, image […]

In this post, we describe how to write text citations for a TED talk or TEDx talks. We’ll cover among other issues: Title of the talk / title of video  Publication date Speaker’s name / Name of the speaker  Date given / month date  We’ll also mention how to use square brackets and parenthetical citation. […]

In this post, we take a look at some general guidelines when it comes to citing quoted text from a book. The guide will cover APA style (American Psychological Association ) as well as MLA style, and we’ll go through how to format the author names (author’s first name, the author’s last name), year of […]

This article explains how to cite a news article, including how to format the publication date, access date, name of the newspaper  and article title. The following information covers the main styles of APA and MLA for both online articles and the print version. Please note that the place of publication (such as the city […]

APA [7th edition] Authored book chapters If you sourced content from just one chapter of an authored book, APA suggests you reference the whole book rather than write a reference list for only that chapter. Reference list format Author Last Name, Initials, (Year published) Book title. Publisher URL (for digital books) Reference list example Harris, […]

To learn how to cite Wikipedia, scroll down to find some examples. The word Wikipedia is derived from wiki and encyclopedia. Wikipedia is a multilingual free, online encyclopedia that was launched on the 15th of January 2001. It is based on open-source management and has a community of volunteer contributors that help to maintain the […]

Guide overview  This post describes how to cite an interview using both MLA style and APA style. We will look at both citing inside the text (text citation) as well as citing in the list of references. It is important to note that there are different types of source types which require you to cite […]