Referencing & Citation

Referencing and Citation for Thesis

Citation and referencing styles are very important in academic writing. Most of researchers have problems in formatting and following a standard format for their research paper, thesis or any other academic projects.

APA & Chicago Styles are two popular styles of citation and referencing.

Here are the official websites of these styles, where you can find a lot of learning resources.

This is APA's official website

www.apastyle.org

Here is the web link for The Chicago Manual of Styles.

www.chicagomanualofstyle.org

you may register on this site to get one month free access. Learn Grammar and its usage part in it. It is very helpful to improve your academic writing skills. Further subscribe to these both website's and get regular updates.

Finally a great news for the users of Ms. Office 2007 and onward versions to get these styles tailored by the computer. It is of great help. Here is a YOUTUBE tutorial for it. Please do watch it to learn and share it with others for urging people to excel.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPZafaeA784

Please watch the following video shared by Virtual University, Pakistan for the course STA630 Research Method. This is very important for researchers especially thesis writers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch v=NampEYtqCcY&feature=plcp&context=C3afe6d6UDOEgsToPDskLe2lKGym-OTj_2Khj5rVz_

Access free course material from VU website here.

http://ocw.vu.edu.pk/Default.aspx

(we appreciate this great contribution of VU for sharing knowledge globally).