

The way that citations appear (format) depends on the citation style, which is a set of established rules and conventions for documenting sources.Ĭitation styles can be defined by an association, such as the Modern Language Association (MLA), publisher, such as the University of Chicago Press, or journal, such as The New England Journal of Medicine. While the two basic approaches to citations are simple, there are many different citation styles. Scholars writing in the sciences and social sciences typically use in-text citations, while humanities scholars utilize endnotes/footnotes.


There are two basic approaches to citation:
