As a researcher, you might be accustomed to one or a couple of citation styles depending on your discipline and where you publish most of your works. Regardless, for some reason, you could have a preference for a particular referencing style (MLA, CHICAGO, Turabian, APA, HARVARD, IEEE, VANCOUVER, ACS, AMA, AGLC, CSE, or other). Can you share with other researchers what this preference is and why?
I do clinical research on infectious diseases. My particular preference is Vancouver, almost all the journals and papers I read use this style. It feels more "orderly" for me.
Hi Effah Kwaku Korsah,
It usually depends on the journals or publishing house who usually provides the guidelines to the authors.
To get an idea about the different referencing styles, you can check the following video link which might be helpful:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPEyNkd84Ck&ab_channel=KokabManzoor
I have no favourite style...
I use whatever the publishers request. To facilitate this I use Mendelay so that I can easily change the style of the references with minimal effort...
My area of work require more of IEEE and sometimes APA. Once a while publishers require other styles and you just go with that.
I use whatever style the publisher requests. I prefer APA though because I remember the rules
This depends on the instructions of the journals to which we send the manuscripts, but I prefer the APA, because I mostly use it, so I can arrange the references according to this style easily, even when I can't find in Google Scholar.
Dear Dr Effah Kwaku Korsah .I prefer the simplest one where there are numbers inside the text only and the details of the reference is the references section.
Dear @Effah Kwaku Korsah,
I prefer APA Style as authors name and year appear in intext citation. It is most widely used in social science.
APA because it is the recommended style in my institution.
Examine the citation and referencing style of the target journal in detail. Most of the journals prefer the Harvard system, Vancouver, or both combined.
Digital tools for handling citations and references
- Spellcheck
- Citationsy, Bibme, Edifix, APA Wizard, etc.
- Open sources software packages such as Zotero and Mendeley
- Word macros, mail merge
Also, don’t depend on digital tools more.
To know more, https://researchbrains.com/mechanical-aspects-of-citations-and-references/
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