Citation Management Tools
Citation Guides & Tools/Generators
Including citations and references in your research projects is a very important component of the research process. When you include citations, you’re being a responsible researcher. One can choose and use a particular style based on the discipline in which one is working as well as the widely used style in the respective discipline as there are numerous reference and citation styles to choose from. Styles are essentially long-standing practices and conventions.
Citation Tools :
ZoteroBib : https://zbib.org/
ZoteroBib is a free website that allows you to automatically create a bibliography in different referencing styles, save your bibliography and share it, on any computer or device.
Scribbr Citation Generator : https://www.scribbr.com/citation/generator/
Scribbr's free citation generator automatically generates accurate references and in-text citations. This citation guide outlines the most important citation guidelines from the 7th edition APA Publication Manual (2020).
Citation Guides :
General Citation Guides
Specific Citation Guide
Harvard Referencing Style Guide
Various Citation Styles :
APA (American Psychological Association)
The American Psychological Association is abbreviated as APA. It is the citation style used in the majority of social sciences and some natural sciences.
APSA Style (American Political Science Association)
It is the citation style used by many political science scholars, and it is the style used in all APSA journals.
ASA Style (American Sociological Association)
It is the citation style used by many sociologists.
AAA Style (American Anthropological Association) :
The American Anthropological Association (AAA) Documentation Style is close to the Chicago Manual of Style (CMS). It is the citation style used by many anthropologists, and it is the style used in all AAA journals.
ACS Style (American Chemical Society) :
The ACS Style Guide, an established resource for the chemistry community, is used as a resource in teaching students how to effectively communicate scientific information and is referenced by other publishers, even beyond chemistry, within their author instructions.
AMS Style (American Mathematical Society)
AMS citation style is given by the American Mathematical Society. In AMS Style the # sign in brackets represents the order that the citation is mentioned in the text of the paper.
AP Style (Associated Press Style)
The Associated Press Stylebook and Briefing on Media Law, commonly referred to as the AP Stylebook, is a style and usage guide used in the United States by newspapers and the news industry.
The Chicago Stype was created and is maintained by the University of Chicago Press. It is the preferred citation style for historians, but it is also commonly used in other arts and humanities subjects. subjects.
MLA Style (Modern Language Association)
The Modern Language Association is abbreviated as MLA. It is the most common citation style used by literature and language scholars, but it is also commonly used in other humanities subjects.
MHRA Style (Modern Humanities Research Association)
The Modern Humanities Research Association developed the MHRA style, which is widely used by students and other authors, editors, and publishers of texts written primarily in English.
Turabian style is commonly used in humanities and social science courses. It lets you use an author-date system with notes and parenthetical references. At the end of the research paper, the bibliography items are listed alphabetically.
Most biomedical journals and many scientific journals use the Vancouver Style for citation. It is a method of writing references in academic papers that is also known as the "author-number" system.
The Oxford Referencing style is a citation system for notes. It is also referred to as a documentary-note style. It consists of two parts: footnote citation and reference list.
Because partial citations are enclosed within parenthesis and embedded in the text, either within or after a sentence, Harvard referencing is also known as Parenthetical referencing.
GSA (Geological Society of America) Style
The GSA citation style is required for authors who want to publish their papers in GSA journals.