For all the dissertation or the academic writing, referencing is needed. There is a guidance to reference in the dissertation or in the academic work. There are many type of academic citation present there which are Harvard, APA, Footnotes, Bibliography, mla citation machine and many more. There are different type of academic work which are report, essay, dissertation and many more. For every type of academic work, different type of citation is needed.
References are used in the assignments if the writer is quoting directly any passage or if they are using the ideas of any other writer to create any argument. If any information which is quoted from any book from another writer or any information gathered from any website, then reference should be done and citation is needed in that topic.
Many types of reference style are present which are discussed below:
Harvard
It is the umbrella term for any type of referencing style which uses author name and the year of publication in between the text to point out in which place the writer inserted the source.
The example is Musser, D.R., Derge, G.J. and Saini, A., 2009. STL tutorial and reference guide: C++ programming with the standard template library. Addison-Wesley Professional. and the citation is (Musser, Derge and Saini 2009).
APA
It is the author-date style so that the citation in this text consists of last name of author(s) and publication year which is given the total or partial in the round brackets.
The example is Musser, D. R., Derge, G. J., & Saini, A. (2009). STL tutorial and reference guide: C++ programming with the standard template library. Addison-Wesley Professional. and the citation is (Musser, Derge & Saini, 2009).
MLA
It is the method of referencing which is developed by the Modern Language Association. It has the two parts, one is the brief mla referencing or in-text citation in the body of any essay where only last name of authors are present in between the round brackets and another part is the detailed list of works cited at end of the work.
The example is Musser, David R., Gillmer J. Derge, and Atul Saini. STL tutorial and reference guide: C++ programming with the standard template library. Addison-Wesley Professional, 2009. and the citation is (Musser, Derge and Saini).
Chicago
It is the style of author-date, so this citation has author(s) name and publication year within the round brackets.
The example is Musser, David R., Gillmer J. Derge, and Atul Saini. STL tutorial and reference guide: C++ programming with the standard template library. Addison-Wesley Professional, 2009. and the citation is (Musser, Derge and Saini 2009).
Beside these, there are many other types of referencing style present and the examples are as follows:
Vancouver- Musser DR, Derge GJ, Saini A. STL tutorial and reference guide: C++ programming with the standard template library. Addison-Wesley Professional; 2009 Dec 10.
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