Citation Basics
All citation styles provide rules for how to cite sources; specific rules depend on the given style. The two main types of citing you'll use to write a paper are:
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Parenthetical (In-Text) or Footnote Citing: brief information inserted at the bottom of the page or in parentheses after a quote, paraphrase, summary, or other reference you have taken from another; this brief citation serves to refer the reader to the full citation in the source list at the end of the paper.
- List of Sources or Bibliography: the bibliography, also called a reference list (AMA and APA) or works cited (MLA), appears at the end of a paper and contains the complete citation to the original source.
To cite a resource, you need to identify 4 things about it:
Author | Title | Date | Publication Statement
A style manual provides specific rules on how to present these 4 pieces of information, at Bastyr we use the APA and AMA style manuals.