Some Notes about CITATION and FORMAT:
Some of you have not been paying enough attention to issues of MLA, APA, or Chicago Manual of Style formatting. For example, as I have read your drafts many of you have periods in the wrong place or other punctuation issues, or are combining multiple formats together. Another example is that some of you who are using APA format have failed to notice that APA format requires a title page, and uses a "running header" which is a shortened version of your papers title and the page number which goes in the header of the document. APA also requires an "abstract" to be placed immediately after the title page. Some of you are also not noticing that MLA calls its references "Works Cited" while APA format does not. Chicago Manual of Style itself has a couple of distinct ways you can cite, including using footnotes, endnotes, or name/date citation styles. Whatever you do, you just find the rules and follow them precisely and consistently, chosing only ONE of these citation formats to follow throughout. Please refer to the webpages below for more information on your specific chosen citation format.
To double check your APA citation format:
Note: the navigation to take you all the way through the various rules and example for in-text citation and references list formating is at the BOTTOM of the page-- scroll all the way down to find the menu.
To double check your MLA citation format:
Note: the navigation to take you all the way through the various rules and example for in-text citation and references list formating is at the BOTTOM of the page-- scroll all the way down to find the menu.
To double check your Chicago citation format:
Note: This is the offical website of the Chicago Manual of Style, which offers complete guidelines and examples for how to do both in-text citation and references list formatting consist with the Chicago Manual of Style.
