Citation Reference Library

Every Citation Style.
Explained Properly.

APA 7th, MLA 9th, Chicago, Harvard, Vancouver, IEEE, OSCOLA — complete guides with worked examples, format tables, and common mistakes your marker will notice.

Citation Style Guides

Complete style manuals with format rules, worked examples, and discipline guidance.

Citation Style

APA 7th Edition — Complete Guide

The definitive guide to APA 7. In-text citations, reference list formatting, DOI rules, what changed from 6th edition, and worked examples across source types.

📚 Social Sciences, PsychologyRead guide →
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MLA 9th Edition — Complete Guide

MLA's container model explained, Works Cited vs. bibliography, in-text parenthetical format, signal phrases, and how to handle digital and multimedia sources.

📚 Humanities, LiteratureRead guide →
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Chicago Notes-Bibliography

Footnote and endnote conventions, bibliography format, ibid. and short-title subsequent references, and when to use N-B versus Author-Date format.

📚 History, Arts, HumanitiesRead guide →
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Chicago Author-Date System

In-text parenthetical format, reference list construction, how Author-Date differs from Notes-Bibliography, and which disciplines use it.

📚 Sciences, Social SciencesRead guide →
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Harvard Referencing System

Why there is no single Harvard standard, how UK university variations work, author-date in-text format, reference list rules, and navigating institutional differences.

📚 UK Universities (general)Read guide →
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Vancouver (ICMJE) Style

Numbered superscript citations, reference list by order of appearance, PubMed and MEDLINE conventions, and worked examples for clinical and nursing sources.

📚 Medicine, Nursing, HealthRead guide →
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IEEE Citation Style

Numbered in-text references, IEEE reference list format, how to cite standards, patents, conference papers, and software — the engineer's citation reference.

📚 Engineering, Technology, CSRead guide →
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OSCOLA — UK Legal Citation

How to cite cases, statutes, secondary sources, and EU law under OSCOLA. Pinpoint citations, neutral citations, and the logic of the footnote-only system.

📚 UK LawRead guide →
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MHRA Style Guide

The humanities footnote system favoured by UK literature and language programmes. Full and shortened subsequent footnotes, bibliography construction, and archival sources.

📚 Humanities, Languages (UK)Read guide →
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APA In-Text Citations — Deep Dive

Et al. rules, same-author same-year disambiguation with letters, quoting with page numbers, block quotations, personal communications, and paraphrase conventions.

📚 APA Specialist GuideRead guide →

Citing Specific Source Types

Cross-style guides for the most commonly cited source formats.

Source Type

How to Cite a Journal Article

Side-by-side format tables across APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard, and Vancouver. Print vs. online, DOI vs. URL, volume/issue notation, and e-ahead-of-print articles.

📄 All Styles ComparedRead guide →
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How to Cite a Book

Books, edited volumes, chapters, multi-volume works, and translated texts — formatted across APA, MLA, Chicago, and Harvard with worked examples for each.

📄 All Styles ComparedRead guide →
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How to Cite Websites & Digital Sources

Websites, social media posts, online reports, government pages, and multimedia. How to handle missing dates, authors, and URLs that change — across all major styles.

📄 Digital SourcesRead guide →
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How to Cite Dissertations & Theses

Citing published and unpublished dissertations, institutional repositories, ProQuest Dissertations, EThOS, and grey literature across APA, MLA, Chicago, and Harvard.

📄 Graduate ResearchRead guide →
Academic Integrity

Avoiding Plagiarism & Citing Correctly

The difference between quoting, paraphrasing, and summarising; what self-plagiarism is; what Turnitin detects; and the citation practices that protect your academic integrity.

📄 All StudentsRead guide →

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