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Understanding the Rules of Referencing and Citation

There is no perfect assignment without proper referencing and citation. Unless you are using enough credible sources to back up your claims and acknowledge them accordingly, your assignment will not be accepted. No matter whether you resort to APA citation format generator or MLA referencing tools, you must always get the basics right prior to anything else. Read this PDF.<br>

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Understanding the Rules of Referencing and Citation

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  1. Understanding the Rules of Referencing andCitation • Posted by Emily Moore on June 9, 2020 at9:25am • View Blog- • http://higgs-tours.ning.com/profiles/blogs/understanding-the-rules-of-referencing-and-citation • There is no perfect assignment without proper referencing and citation. Unless you are using enough credible sources to back up your claims and acknowledge them accordingly, your assignment will not be accepted. No matter whether you resort to APA citation format generatoror MLA referencing tools, you must always get the basics right prior to anythingelse. • Take some time to read this informative blog and get introduced to the rules and formats of the three crucial referencing and citationstyles. • Chicago Referencingformat • No matter whether you use Chicago citation makeror add references all by yourself, here are the rules one must follow to in citing sourcesflawlessly. • Use footnotes and endnotes to reference all pieces of works cited in the maintext. • Remember, the citation numbers should appear in a sequentialformat. • If you use a bibliography, you need not provide the full citation with the footnotes. Instead, you should always use a shortened form of thecitation. • The idea is to allow readers to refer to the bibliography section to find the fullreference. • The conventions of APAcitation • Abide by the following rules of APA citation to add perfection to yourpaper. • While capitalising titles in accordance with the APA format, you must capitalise words in a hyphenated compoundword. • In case of quotations, you can introduce them with a single phrase that includes the last name of the author followed by the date of publication inparentheses. • If you are paraphrasing any idea from someone else’s work, then you only have to make reference to the author names and year ofpublication. • Citation rules of MLA ReferencingStyle • Take note of the following conventions to stay on the right track while adding references in the APA format. • According to the APA referencing format, the first authors’ name should be reversed along with a comma placed right after the last name and a period after the firstname. • For Journal Article: Author's Last name, First name. "Title of Journal Article." Title of Journal, vol. number, issue no., date, page range. Database or Website Name, URL orDOI. • For blog: Last name of Author, First name of Author. “Title of the Blog Post.” Title of the Blog,Publisher, Date of publication, address of thewebsite. • So, take note of each of the suggestions mentioned above, read through the conventions carefully and make it a point to implement each of the key pointers for flawlessoutcomes. • In case you would still find the task difficult, use advanced APA citation generators and other tools that offer customised citations for other formats aswell.

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