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A citation style is a standardized set of rules that dictates how you format in-text references, footnotes, and bibliography entries in an academic paper. Different disciplines have different priorities: sciences favor author-date formats like APA, humanities lean toward footnote-based systems like Chicago, and engineering uses numbered styles like IEEE. Each style page below includes a free citation generator with verified metadata.

APA

Popular Styles7th Edition — Most common style for social sciences, psychology, and education.

MLA

Popular Styles9th Edition — Standard for humanities, literature, and liberal arts.

Chicago

Popular Styles17th Edition — Versatile style used in history, arts, and publishing.

Harvard

Popular StylesStandard — Popular in UK and Australian universities.

IEEE

Popular StylesStandard — Standard for engineering and computer science.

Vancouver

Popular StylesStandard — Common in medical and scientific journals.

ABNT

NBR 6023:2018 — Brazilian standard for academic citations.

AMA

11th Edition — Used in medical and health sciences.

ASA

6th Edition — Standard for sociology publications.

Bluebook

21st Edition — Legal citation style for US law.

CSE

8th Edition — Used in scientific and biology publications.

OSCOLA

4th Edition — UK legal citation standard.

Turabian

9th Edition — Simplified Chicago for students.

ACS

3rd Edition — Standard for chemistry publications.

MHRA

3rd Edition — Standard for UK humanities, using footnote-bibliography format.

APA 6th

6th Edition — Previous APA edition, still used by some institutions.

Nature

Current — Numbered citation style for Nature and affiliated journals.

PLOS

Current — Open access journal style with numbered references.

Science

Current — Style for Science and AAAS journals.

Cell

Current — Style for Cell and affiliated biomedical journals.

Lancet

Current — Style for The Lancet and affiliated medical journals.

AIP

Current — Standard for physics publications.

RSC

Current — Standard for RSC chemistry journals.

APSA

Current — Standard for political science publications.

AAA

Current — Standard for anthropology publications.

AGLC

4th Edition — Australian legal citation standard.

McGill

10th Edition — Canadian legal citation standard.

NP 405

Current — Portuguese national citation standard.

ISO 690

3rd Edition (2021) — International standard for bibliographic references.

ISO 690 (DE)

Current — German adaptation of ISO 690.

ISO 690 (FR)

Current — French adaptation of ISO 690.

ISO 690 (ES)

Current — Spanish adaptation of ISO 690.

Chicago Notes

17th Edition — Chicago footnote-bibliography system for humanities.

ABNT Numérico

NBR 6023:2018 — Brazilian standard numeric citation system.

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