Citation styles
Citation styles are consensus standards recommended by academic publications for use when documents must uniquely identify other documents.
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Background
Scholarly publications often reference, or “cite”, other scholarly publications. In order to help a reader differentiate a referenced document from other documents, a useful citation should include enough information to uniquely identify and locate a publication. In 20th century documents, various frequently used publishing companies published standards, or “styles” for citation syntax; often, academic publications require a specific style. Such styles include:
- APA style: from the American Psychological Association from around 1952.
- MLA style: from the Modern Language Association from around 1977.
- Harvard style: from a citation style used in the 19th century in Harvard University libraries[1].
- Chicago style: from the University of Chicago Press.
Citation styles seem to follow basically two groups:
- author-title (APA style, Harvard style, Chicago style)
- author-date (MLA style, Chicago style)
Wikipedia generally follows an author-date format[2]. However, whenever author information is missing, instead of the date taking precedence, the title instead is used in place of the author field; this is likely because the title is more likely than a date string to be what a typical human remembers about a document when scanning a list of citations.
History
Baltakatei history
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References
- ↑ Mark, Edward Laurens. (1881). “Maturation, fecundation, and segmentation of Limax campestris, Binney”. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. 6: 194. doi:10.1086/273085
- ↑ "Wikipedia:Citing sources”. (2023). "Citation types". Accessed 2023-03-13.
