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 3-4
Information for each discipline

Citation styles and conventions vary across disciplines (and even among different publishers / journals within the same discipline). In the following, links are given to the guidelines provided by a typical professional society or journal in each major discipline, as recommended by the department or faculty concerned. Many of these guidelines contain hints about manuscript preparation that go beyond citations.

Disciplines
• Arts
• Business Administration
• Education
• Engineering
• Law
• Medicine
• Science
• Social Science