What are the two ways of citing sources?

What are the two ways of citing sources?

There are two methods of citing sources in your text:

  • Parenthetical citations give a short reference in parentheses directly in the text.
  • Numerical citations give only a number that corresponds to a footnote, endnote, or reference list entry.

How is a citation written?

Give an in-text citation (i.e. in brackets or footnotes, depending on the style you are using) at the place where they are included in your writing and a full citation in the bibliography or reference list for the text you got them from. Give the image a caption, with a figure number, title and the reference.

How do I cite an article in APA?

Basic format to reference journal articles

  1. Author or authors.
  2. Year of publication of the article (in round brackets).
  3. Article title.
  4. Journal title (in italics).
  5. Volume of journal (in italics).
  6. Issue number of journal in round brackets (no italics).
  7. Page range of article.
  8. DOI or URL.

When should you reference something?

Whenever you use an idea from someone else’s work, for example from a journal article, textbook or website, you should cite the original author to make it clear where that idea came from. This is the case regardless of whether you have paraphrased, summarised or directly quoted their work.

How do you reference your own diagram?

If you use graphs, diagrams, photographs or other images in your work that you have created yourself, you do not need to reference them, but you do still need to give them a caption and explain why they are there. Give your Figure a number (in italics) and title to describe it.

How do you cite yourself as primary source?

Bottom Line: When citing yourself, in whichever style you are utilizing, cite in-text citations to identify yourself as the author. On your Works Cited Page (MLA) or Reference List (APA), identify yourself as the author using the format for an unpublished paper (or published, if you have published it!)