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  2. Citation - Wikipedia

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    xkcd webcomic titled "Wikipedian Protester". The sign says: "[CITATION NEEDED]".[1]A citation is a reference to a source. More precisely, a citation is an abbreviated alphanumeric expression embedded in the body of an intellectual work that denotes an entry in the bibliographic references section of the work for the purpose of acknowledging the relevance of the works of others to the topic of ...

  3. APA style - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. APA style (also known as APA format) is a writing style and format for academic documents such as scholarly journal articles and books. It is commonly used for citing sources within the field of behavioral and social sciences, including sociology, education, nursing, criminal justice, anthropology, and psychology.

  4. Bibliography - Wikipedia

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    Bibliography (from Ancient Greek: βιβλίον, romanized: biblion, lit. 'book' and -γραφία, -graphía, 'writing'), as a discipline, is traditionally the academic study of books as physical, cultural objects; in this sense, it is also known as bibliology[1] (from Ancient Greek: -λογία, romanized: -logía). English author and ...

  5. Help:Referencing for beginners - Wikipedia

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    To use it, click on at the top of the edit window, having already positioned your cursor after the sentence or fact you wish to reference. Then select one of the 'Templates' from the dropdown menu that best suits the type of source. These are: { {cite web}} for references to general websites.

  6. Wikipedia:Citing sources - Wikipedia

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    In-text attribution is the attribution inside a sentence of material to its source, in addition to an inline citation after the sentence. In-text attribution may need to be used with direct speech (a source's words between quotation marks or as a block quotation); indirect speech (a source's words modified without quotation marks); and close ...

  7. The Chicago Manual of Style - Wikipedia

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    In both instances, the citation is also placed in a bibliography entry at the end of the material, listed in alphabetical order of the author's last name. [13] The two formats differ: notes use commas where bibliography entries use periods. [14] The following is an example of a journal article citation provided as a note and its bibliography entry.

  8. MLA Handbook - Wikipedia

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    t. e. MLA Handbook (9th ed., 2021), formerly MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers (1977–2009), establishes a system for documenting sources in scholarly writing. It is published by the Modern Language Association, which is based in the United States. According to the organization, their MLA style "has been widely adopted for classroom ...

  9. Help:Overview of referencing styles - Wikipedia

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    Parenthetical referencing is a citation system in which citations are added within sentences using brackets (parentheses). An example would be "Paris is the capital of France (Smith 2020, p. 1)". Full citations are collected in footnotes or endnotes, or in alphabetical order by author's last name, under a "references", "bibliography", or "works ...