Contemporary Referencing Styles

There a plenty of referencing styles used in the world today. Some referencing styles are famous and are used around the world in academic writing. Although, there are different sub-categories of each referencing style, based on the nature of the work cited. For example, if we want to cite a source in APA referencing style, there is a difference in citing a book, a journal article, etc. APA (American Psychological Association), Harvard, and MLA (Modern Language Association) are the most widely used referencing styles around the world. In different referencing styles, there is some basic information that is included in all kinds of referencing styles. Following are the basic structures of in-text and references list citations in different referencing styles: 

APA

In-Text: (Author’s Last Name, Year of Publishing)

References List: Last Name of Author, First Name of Author, (Year of publication), Title of the book, Publisher Name, Place where published. 

Harvard

In-Text: (Last name of author Year of Publication)

References List: Last Name of Author, First Name of Author Year of publication, Title of the book, Publisher Name, Place where published, Pages number. 

MLA

In-Text: (Author’s Last Name, Pages number)

Works Cited List: Last name of the author, First name of the author. The title of the book. Place of publication: Publisher, Year of publication. The medium of publication.