Chicago, APA and MLA are different citation standards. At the end of books or papers you will see a bunch of references and they are all in the same format, these standards dictate the order of information (eg title, author, chapter, volume, page number...)
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Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 1y
What is MLA and APA?
Kyle_The_G@lemmy.world · 64 pts · 1y
Chicago, APA and MLA are different citation standards. At the end of books or papers you will see a bunch of references and they are all in the same format, these standards dictate the order of information (eg title, author, chapter, volume, page number...)
FearfulSalad@ttrpg.network · 28 pts · 1y
Your disdain for these manuals of style is blatantly visible in your omission of the serial comma, which all three recommend using ಠ_ಠ
edgemaster72@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1y
All my homies love the Oxford comma
Kyle_The_G@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y
Ha! My background is science, honestly I just plug everything into endnote and it does it for me I can't be bothered to learn the format.
morphballganon@lemmynsfw.com · 1 pts · 1y
AP doesn't
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Ah. Never heard of these. Thanks for the explanation.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social · 6 pts · 1y
What, Wizard Seminary doesn't believe in citations? It's just a free for all of plagiarism?
That sounds awesome, actually.
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
Not really. I am just not from the US so we use different standards
Neoinvin@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 1y
writing standards and styles guides
bartvbl@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 1y
He knows about other things too, but they're only tangentially related
4am@lemm.ee · 13 pts · 1y
He’s gonna take on saTan()
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space · 9 pts · 1y
trigonometry 🤝 consequentialist ethics
Donjuanme@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y
Love this one the most. So many levels. Practically multivariable.
kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 1y
He's going to decrease sin by increasing the amount of pie in the Vatican, because as we know the sin of pi is 0 :3
tetris11@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 1y
He's Nature's Pope
GrammarPolice@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
!science_memes@mander.xyz
El_guapazo@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Since he has a STEM degree, he's still an APA Pope