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Home go.mbs.ac.uk/bizlib247
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Introduction
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Question & Answer
| Question: | How do I choose a citation style? |
| Answer: | If you are submitting to a journal:
Use the citation style adopted by the journal.
If you are submitting a thesis, dissertation, project report:
Use the citation style required by your institution, faculty or supervisor.
MBS recommends the Harvard Style, an author date style, and
the most popular style for business and management research in the UK.
However, there are many variations for the Harvard style, so you need to select your Harvard variation and apply it consistently.
For further details
look at the referencing posts on the Business Research Plus blog.
The Harvard and Vancouver styles are well know in the UK (See British Medical Association (BMA) advice on referencing styles). In contrast APA, Chicago, MLA and Turabian are better known in the USA.
- APA - www.apastyle.org/ (an author date style very similar to Harvard)
- Chicago - www.chicagomanualofstyle.org (In fact two basic documentation systems: 1) notes and bibliography, 2) author date. Author date is similar to Harvard and APA having parenthetical references in the text and full details in a reference list.)
- MLA - www.mla.org/style (an author page number style)
- Turabian - turabian_citationguide.html (Similar to Chicago - a notes - bibliography style, and a paranthetical citation - reference list style. )
- Vancouver (numbered) - Vancouver style (biomedical editor) (a numeric style popular in biomedical journals but rarely used in business and finance academic journals)
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