Objective 1 – Give guidelines on how to list references in scientific writing.
Objective 2 – Give guidelines on how to write references section with different scientific writing styles.
Objective 3 – Know how to reach different scientific writing style manuals.
Properly citing references is essential for establishing a research paper's credibility and acknowledging others' work (Nicholas & Watkinson, 2014). References should be listed in alphabetical order by the last name of the first author. Each entry should provide sufficient information for the reader to locate the source.
Different disciplines and journals such as APA, MLA, or Chicago may require different citation styles. Each style has its rules for formatting references (American Psychological Association, 2020; Modern Language Association, 2021; The Chicago Manual of Style, 2017).
In order to reach different style of writing, making citation, and referencing you can use official websites of these styles.
APA Style Guideline: https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines
Chicago Style Guideline: https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide.html
MLA Style Guideline: https://style.mla.org/
