What are citation styles? And what information do I need to include in them and in what order?
Different fields use a different citation style. Each citation or formatting style (for example, APA
(American Psychological Association), IEEE (Institute of Electtrical and Electronics Engineer), MLA (Modern Language Association), CSE (Council of Science Editors) and McGill) has a different group of guidelines for how you should present your work and document the sources that you used in your work.
Although all styles include common information (such as author's name, article or book title, journal name in which the article appeared, date of publication), there are differences in the order in which the information is given and how it is formatted in your citation and in your reference list. In addition, each style will have different requirements as to how essays and reports are formatted (such as, location of page number, what is included on a title page, whether or not an abstract is required, if a running head is needed, and so on). Remember, courses in science, psychology, engineering, business, health science, legal studies, communication, and so on, will all follow a different style.
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Hey man, how come your results seem so close to theory? Oh, I just made them up. I couldn't actually perform the experiment.
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It's cheating if you fake lab results! You should always use data from experiments you performed.
