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academic styles

A brief introduction to citation styles

These days we find sources for the essays online more and more often. It would be great if we could just hyperlink them, instead of using complicated quotation systems and different citation styles. This day may come sometime, which will be of help with essay writing, but so far all essay writers are still bound to comply with the rules of MLA, APA, Chicago, and other less popular styles. Let us very briefly examine the ways these styles are different.