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Section 3
Citation styles
There are two levels in acknowledging source material.
- The last
section explained cases for which source material must be acknowledged.
- This section explains how an acknowledgement
can be presented.
1. Numbered
references
2. Harvard style
3. Citation in the text
4. Information for each discipline
Section 3-3
Citation in the text
The reference is embedded in the text within parentheses.
| The laws of motion were first given by Newton a long time ago (I Newton, Principia Mathematica, 1687), while the extension to high speeds was first proposed by Einstein (A Einstein, Ann. Phys, 1905). |
This style should only be used for non-academic writing, e.g., a casual article in a newspaper column. In such citations, only the most essential bibliographic information is provided.
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