Drafting your paper: How to cite properly: citation styles

Drafting your paper

You have searched through the sources of information at your disposal, selected the most relevant results and evaluated them. Now it is time to start to write your thesis and to organize all the information gathered and used.

2. Citations and bibliographies

2.3. How to cite properly: citation styles

Whether you are citing in the body of the text or writing the final bibliography, you need to follow a defined format, a standard, which guarantees that you are including all the elements necessary to identify a resource (for instance author’s name, date of publication etc…).

A citation style dictates the necessary information for a citation and how to order it, as well as punctuation and other formatting.

A citation style is used to recall your sources:

in the body of the text
in footnotes
in your final bibliography

Use the same citation style throughout your entire work.

If you want to find the citation style suggested by your professor, take a look at:

https://editor.citationstyles.org/searchByExample/ using the function "Search by example"